Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with A. Steger, D. Steurer and B. Sudakov)

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 12:15 pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Matija Bucic

Erdos-Szekeres theorem for multidimensional arrays

The classical Erdos-Szekeres theorem dating back almost a hundred years states that any sequence of (n-1)²+1 distinct real numbers contains a monotone subsequence of length n. This theorem has been generalised to higher dimensions in a variety of ways but perhaps the most natural one was proposed by Fishburn and Graham more than 25 years ago. They defined the concept of a monotone and a lex-monotone array and asked how large an array one needs in order to be able to find a monotone or a lex-monotone subarray of size n times n times ... times n. Fishburn and Graham obtained Ackerman-type bounds in both cases. We significantly improve these results. Regardless of the dimension we obtain at most a triple exponential bound in n in the monotone case and a quadruple exponential one in the lex-monotone case. This is joint work with Benny Sudakov and Tuan Tran.

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