Rainbow-free 3-colorings of abelian groups (Q426812)

Summary: A 3-coloring of the elements of an abelian group is said to be rainbow-free if there is no 3-term arithmetic progression with its members having pairwise distinct colors. We give a structural characterization of rainbow-free colorings of abelian groups. This characterization proves a conjecture of \textit{V. Jungić}, \textit{J. Nešetřil} and \textit{R. Radoičić} [Integers 5, No. 2, Paper A09, 13 p., electronic only (2005; Zbl 1091.05071)] on the size of the smallest chromatic class of a rainbow-free 3-coloring of cyclic groups.