Two formulas of 2-color off-diagonal Rado numbers (Q489366)

Consider two linear homogeneous equations with integer coefficients not all the same sign. Assume that the equations each have at least three variables. The \(2\)-color off-diagonal Rado number of the two equations is the smallest integer \(N\) such that for any \(2\)-coloring of \(\{1, 2, \dots{}, N\}\), the first equation has a monochromatic solution of the first color or the second equation has a monochromatic solution of the second color. In this paper, the authors compute some exact values of the \(2\)-color off-diagonal Rado number of two equations. Namely, they prove that if \( q \geq 2\) is an integer, then the \(2\)-color off-diagonal Rado number of the equations \(3x + 3y - z = 0\) and \(3x + 3qy - z = 0\) is \(54q + 57\), and the \(2\)-color off-diagonal Rado number of the equations \(2x + 3y - z = 0\) and \(2x + 2qy - z = 0\) is \(20q + 26\). The proofs are elementary.