A subexponential upper bound for van der Waerden numbers \(W(3,k)\) (Q2030760)
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A subexponential upper bound for van der Waerden numbers \(W(3,k)\) (English)
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7 June 2021
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Summary: We show an improved upper estimate for van der Waerden number \(W(3,k)\): there is an absolute constant \(c>0\) such that if \(\{1,\dots,N\}=X\cup Y\) is a partition such that \(X\) does not contain any arithmetic progression of length \(3\) and \(Y\) does not contain any arithmetic progression of length \(k\) then \[N\leqslant \exp(O(k^{1-c}))\,.\]
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Szemerédi's theorem on arithmetic progressions
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Roth's theorem
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