Monochromatic exponential triples: An ultrafilter proof

DOI10.1090/PROC/16547MaRDI QIDQ6083337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mauro Di Nasso

Publication date 31 October 2023

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11764

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial number theoryRamsey theoryultrafilters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Ramsey theory (05D10) Special constructions of topological spaces (spaces of ultrafilters, etc.) (54D80)

Abstract: We present a short ultrafilter proof of the existence of monochromatic exponential triples $a,b,b^a$ in any finite coloring of the natural numbers. The proof is given from scratch and uses only Ramsey's theorem, the notion of asymptotic density and the definition of ultrafilter as prerequisites. We then generalize the construction using a special ultrafilter whose existence is well known in the algebra of ultrafilters, and prove a new result on the existence of infinite monochromatic exponential patterns.

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