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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2020-01-01
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Series: | Forum of Mathematics, Pi |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2050508620000128/type/journal_article |