Department of Computer Science | Institute of Theoretical Computer Science | CADMO
Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner
Mittagsseminar Talk Information |
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 12:15 pm
Duration: 30 minutes
Location: OAT S15/S16/S17
Speaker: József Balogh (University of Illinois)
Folkman's Theorem asserts that for each k in N, there exists a natural number n=F(k) such that whenever the elements of [n] are two-coloured, there exists a subset A of [n] of size k with the property that all the sums of the form \sum_{x\in B} x, where B is a nonempty subset of A, are contained in [n] and have the same colour. In 1989, Erd\H{o}s and Spencer showed that F(k) >= 2^{ck^2/log k}, where c>0 is an absolute constant; here, we improve this bound significantly by showing that F(k)>= 2^{2^{k-1}/k} for all k in N. Joint with Sean Eberhard, Bhargav Narayanan, Andrew Treglown, Adam Zsolt Wagner.
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