Title
A Ramsey Treatment of Symmetry
Abstract
Given a space endowed with symmetry, we dene ms(;r )t o be the maximum of m such that for any r-coloring of there exists a monochromatic symmetric set of size at least m. We consider a wide range of spaces including the discrete and continuous segmentsf1;:::;ng and (0; 1) with central symmetry, geometric gures with the usual symmetries of Euclidean space, and Abelian groups with a natural notion of central symmetry. We observe that ms(f1;:::;ng;r )a ndms((0; 1);r) are closely related, prove lower and upper bounds for ms((0; 1); 2), and nd asymptotics of ms((0; 1);r )f orr increasing. The exact value of ms(;r) is determined for gures of revolution, regular polygons, and multi-dimensional parallelopipeds. We also discuss problems of a slightly dierent flavor and, in particular, prove that the minimal r such that there exists an r-coloring of the k-dimensional integer grid without innite monochromatic symmetric subsets is k +1 .
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
Electr. J. Comb.
abelian group,euclidean space
Field
DocType
Volume
Integer,Discrete mathematics,Abelian group,Combinatorics,Symmetric set,Regular polygon,Euclidean space,Omega,Asymptotic analysis,Homogeneous space,Mathematics
Journal
7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
1.66
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taras O. Banakh197.24
O. V. Verbitsky252.00
Ya. Vorobets351.66