Van der Waerden's function and colourings of hypergraphs

Autor: Shabanov, Dmitrii A
Zdroj: Izvestiya: Mathematics; October 2011, Vol. 75 Issue: 5 p1063-1091, 29p
Abstrakt: A classical problem of combinatorial number theory is to compute van der Waerden's function $ W(n,r)$. Using random colourings of hypergraphs, we get a new asymptotic lower bound for $ W(n,r)$ which improves previous results for a wide range of values of $ n$ and $ r$.
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