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    Effectiveness of Hindman's theorem for bounded sums

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    We consider the strength and effective content of restricted versions of Hindman's Theorem in which the number of colors is specified and the length of the sums has a specified finite bound. Let HTk≀n\mathsf{HT}^{\leq n}_k denote the assertion that for each kk-coloring cc of N\mathbb{N} there is an infinite set XβŠ†NX \subseteq \mathbb{N} such that all sums βˆ‘x∈Fx\sum_{x \in F} x for FβŠ†XF \subseteq X and 0<∣Fβˆ£β‰€n0 < |F| \leq n have the same color. We prove that there is a computable 22-coloring cc of N\mathbb{N} such that there is no infinite computable set XX such that all nonempty sums of at most 22 elements of XX have the same color. It follows that HT2≀2\mathsf{HT}^{\leq 2}_2 is not provable in RCA0\mathsf{RCA}_0 and in fact we show that it implies SRT22\mathsf{SRT}^2_2 in RCA0\mathsf{RCA}_0. We also show that there is a computable instance of HT3≀3\mathsf{HT}^{\leq 3}_3 with all solutions computing 0β€²0'. The proof of this result shows that HT3≀3\mathsf{HT}^{\leq 3}_3 implies ACA0\mathsf{ACA}_0 in RCA0\mathsf{RCA}_0
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