Semigroups with the Erdös-Turán Property

A set X in a semigroup G has the Erdös-Turán property ET if, for any basis A of X, the representation function rA is ubounded, where rA(x) counts the number of representations of x as a product two elements in A. We show that, under some conditions, operations on binary vectors whose value at each c...

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Autores: Nesetril, J. (Jaroslav), Serra Albó, Oriol|||0000-0001-8561-4631
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/405
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/405
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ramsey theory
Number theory
semigroups
additive bases
Ramsey theorem
Ramsey, Teoria de
Nombres, Teoria dels
Classificació AMS::11 Number theory::11B Sequences and sets
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Sumario:A set X in a semigroup G has the Erdös-Turán property ET if, for any basis A of X, the representation function rA is ubounded, where rA(x) counts the number of representations of x as a product two elements in A. We show that, under some conditions, operations on binary vectors whose value at each coordinate depends only on neighbouring coordinates of the factors give rise to semigroups with the ET{property. In particular countable powers of semigroups with no mutually inverse elements have the ET{property. As a consequence, for each k there is N(k) such that, for every ¯nite subset X of a group G with X \ X¡1 = f1g, the representation function of every basis of XN ½ GN, N ¸ N(k), is not bounded by k. This is in contrast with the known fact that each p{elementary group admits a basis of the whole group whose representation function is bounded by an absolute constant