陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Lecture 5: Other topological recurrence results」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

In this lecture, we use topological dynamics methods to prove some other Ramsey-type theorems , and more specifically the polynomial van der Waerden theorem, the hypergraph Ramsey theorem , Hindman’s theorem , and the Hales-Jewett theorem . In proving these statements, I have decided to focus on the ultrafilter-based proofs, rather than the combinatorial or topological proofs, though of course these styles of proof are also available for each of the above theorems.

We first prove a significant generalisation of van der Waerden’s theorem (Theorem 2 from the previous lecture ):

已知结果和反例

Theorem 1 (Polynomial van der Waerden theorem). Let be a tuple of be integer-valued polynomials ) (or tuple for short) with . Then whenever the integers are finitely coloured, one of the colour classes will contain a pattern of the form for some and .

This result is due to Bergelson and Leibman , who proved it using “epsilon and delta” topological dynamical methods. A combinatorial proof was only obtained rather recently by Walters . In these notes, I will translate the Bergelson-Leibman argument to the ultrafilter setting.

证明或构造的主线

Note that the case recovers the ordinary van der Waerden theorem. But the result is significantly stronger; it implies for instance that one of the colour classes contains arbitrarily many shifted geometric progressions , which does not obviously follow from the van der Waerden theorem. The result here only claims a single monochromatic pattern , but it is not hard to amplify this theorem to show that at least one colour class contains infinitely many such patterns.

Remark 1 . The theorem can fail if the hypothesis is dropped; consider for instance the case , , , and with the integers partitioned (or coloured) into the odd and even integers. More generally, the theorem fails whenever there exists a modulus N such that the polynomials are never simultaneously equal modulo N. This turns out to be the only obstruction; this is a somewhat difficult recent result of Bergelson, Leibman, and Lesigne .

阅读时建议盯住的点

Exercise 1 . Show that the polynomial has a root modulo N for every positive integer N, but has no root in the integers. Thus we see that the Bergelson-Leibman-Lesigne result is stronger than the polynomial van der Waerden theorem; it does not seem possible to directly use the latter to conclude that in every finite colouring of the integers, one of the classes contains the pattern .

Here are the topological dynamics and ultrafilter versions of the above theorem.

值得单独记下的条目

• Show that the space of all weight vectors is a well-ordered set.
• Show that if is a tuple with , has the least degree of all the , and are integers with , then the weight vector of with respect to is strictly smaller than the weight vector of with respect to .
• Using 1., 2., Lemma 1, and Lemma 2, deduce Theorem 3.
• Deduce van der Waerden’s theorem (Theorem 2 from the previous lecture .) Hint : the base k representation of the non-negative natural numbers provides a map from to .
• Deduce the multidimensional van der Waerden’s theorem of Gallai (Exercise 7 from the previous lecture .)
• Whenever X is finitely coloured, one of the colour classes contains a subset in .
• There exists such that every neighbourhood of p contains a subset in .
• Whenever X is finitely coloured, one of the colour classes contains a set for some .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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