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On a coloring conjecture about unit fractions

2003/03/01 by Ernest S. Croot · 2 citations
Mathematics · #Limits and Structures in Graph Theory #Advanced Topology and Set Theory #Analytic Number Theory Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.4007/annals.2003.157.545

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Abstract

We prove an old conjecture of Erds and Graham on sums of unit fractions: There exists a constant b > 0 such that if we r-color the integers in [2, b r ], then there exists a monochromatic set S such that nS 1/n = 1.

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