Proof of a conjecture of Galvin

We prove that if the set of unordered pairs of real numbers is coloured by finitely many colours, there is a set of reals homeomorphic to the rationals whose pairs have at most two colours. Our proof uses large cardinals and verifies a conjecture of Galvin from the 1970s. We extend this result to an...

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Main Authors: Dilip Raghavan, Stevo Todorcevic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020-01-01
Series:Forum of Mathematics, Pi
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2050508620000128/type/journal_article