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On some variations of coloring problems of infinite words
Authors: de Luca A, Zamboni LQ
Publisher: Academic Press INC Elsevier Science
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY SERIES A
Journal acronym: J Comb Theory A
Volume: 137
First page : 166
Last page: 178
Number of pages: 13
ISSN: 0097-3165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2015.08.006
Given a finite coloring (or finite partition) of the free semigroup A(+) over a set A, we consider various types of monochromatic factorizations of right sided infinite words x is an element of A(omega). Some stronger versions of the usual notion of monochromatic factorization are introduced. A factorization is called sequentially monochromatic when concatenations of consecutive blocks are monochromatic. A sequentially monochromatic factorization is called ultra monochromatic if any concatenation of arbitrary permuted blocks of the factorization has the same color of the single blocks. We establish links, and in some cases equivalences, between the existence of these factorizations and fundamental results in Ramsey theory including the infinite Ramsey theorem, Hindman's finite sums theorem, partition regularity of IF sets and the Milliken Taylor theorem. We prove that for each finite set A and each finite coloring so : A(+) -> C, for almost all words x is an element of A(omega), there exists y in the subshift generated by x admitting a so-ultra monochromatic factorization, where "almost all" refers to the Bernoulli measure on A(omega). (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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