Erdős Problem 170
The problem is to determine the limit of the sequence as .
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Is it true that in any finite colouring of there exist arbitrarily large finite such that all sums and products of distinct elements in are the same colour?
Any graph on vertices can be decomposed into many edge-disjoint cycles and edges.
In [Er71] Erdős suggests that only many cycles and edges are required if we do not require them to be edge-disjoint.
What is the smallest such that can be red/blue coloured with no pair of red points unit distance apart, and no -term arithmetic progression of blue points with distance 1?
Seems to be open, as of January 2025.
Let be a finite set and let be an infinite -walk, so that for all . Must contain three collinear points?
What is the largest such that in any permutation of there must exist a monotone -term arithmetic progression ?
Must every permutation of , contain a monotone 4-term arithmetic progression?
Can be partitioned into two sets, each of which can be permuted to avoid monotone 3-term arithmetic progressions?
Is it true that for some constant and for all ?
Does the longest arithmetic progression of primes in have length ?
Is there an integer with such that none of are prime, for any ?
Can every triangle-free graph on vertices be made bipartite by deleting at most edges?
Let count the number of solutions to for prime and . Show that .
Is it true that ?
Originally asked to Erdős by Bose.
This is discussed in problem C11 of Guy's collection [Gu04].
More generally, Bose and Chowla [BoCh62] conjectured that the maximum size of with all -fold sums distinct (aside from the trivial coincidences) then
Let . What is the largest such that there are with a non-empty arithmetic progression for all ?
Szabo asks whether the maximal is given by
Is there a covering system all of whose moduli are of the form for some primes ?