The van der Waerden complex

Richard Ehrenborg; Likith Govindaiah; Peter S. Park; Margaret Readdy

doi:10.1016/j.jnt.2016.08.012

The van der Waerden complex

Richard Ehrenborg
, Likith Govindaiah
, Peter S. Park
, Margaret Readdy

Mathematics

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Abstract

We introduce the van der Waerden complex vdW(n,k) defined as the simplicial complex whose facets correspond to arithmetic progressions of length k in the vertex set {1,2,…,n}. We show the van der Waerden complex vdW(n,k) is homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex whose cells asymptotically have dimension at most log⁡k/log⁡log⁡k. Furthermore, we give bounds on n and k which imply that the van der Waerden complex is contractible.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	287-300
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Number Theory
Volume	172
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2016.08.012
State	Published - Mar 1 2017

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The authors thank Nigel Pitt for discussions related to asymptotics in Section 3 . The authors also thank the referee for providing the references [1,8,9] . The first author was partially supported by National Security Agency grant H98230-13-1-0280 . This work was partially supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (# 206001 to Margaret Readdy). The first and fourth authors thank the Princeton University Mathematics Department where this work was initiated.

Funders	Funder number
Simons Foundation	206001
National Security Agency	H98230-13-1-0280

Keywords

Arithmetic progressions
Discrete Morse theory
Van der Waerden complex

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Algebra and Number Theory

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