On Monochromatic Arithmetic Progressions Having Odd Step (Q4526089)

The van der Waerden theorem states that in any two-coloring of the integers there are arbitrary long arithmetic progressions; but the even/odd-coloring shows that we can easily avoid all arithmetic progressions with odd step. The author studies the properties of other two-colorings with respect to the existence of a monochromatic arithmetic progression with odd step, and poses the question: is there a \(t\in]0,1[\) such that, if in a two-coloring of the integers in each congruence class modulo \(2p\) the upper density of color 0 is at least \(t\), there is an arithmetic progression of color 0 with odd step and length \(2p\)? The author describes some experimental work on this conjecture for the case \(p=2\) with \(t={1\over 2}\).