Monochromatic Hilbert cubes and arithmetic progressions

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Abstract: The Van der Waerden number W(k,r) denotes the smallest n such that whenever [n] is r--colored there exists a monochromatic arithmetic progression of length k. Similarly, the Hilbert cube number h(k,r) denotes the smallest n such that whenever [n] is r--colored there exists a monochromatic affine k--cube, that is, a set of the formleft{x_0 + sum_{b in B} b : B subseteq A ight} for some |A|=k and x0inmathbbZ. We show the following relation between the Hilbert cube number and the Van der Waerden number. Let kgeq3 be an integer. Then for every epsilon>0, there is a c>0 such that h(k,4) ge min{W(lfloor c k^2 floor, 2), 2^{k^{2.5-epsilon}}}. Thus we improve upon state of the art lower bounds for h(k,4) conditional on W(k,2) being significantly larger than 2k. In the other direction, this shows that the if the Hilbert cube number is close its state of the art lower bounds, then W(k,2) is at most doubly exponential in k. We also show the optimal result that for any Sidon set AsubsetmathbbZ, one has left|left{sum_{b in B} b : B subseteq A ight} ight| = Omega( |A|^3) .









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