# Long rainbow arithmetic progressions

 Importance: Medium ✭✭
 Subject: Combinatorics
 Keywords: arithmetic progression rainbow
 Posted by: vjungic on: July 3rd, 2007

For $k\in \mathbb{N}$ let $T_k$ denote the minimal number $t\in \mathbb{N}$ such that there is a rainbow $AP(k)$ in every equinumerous $t$-coloring of $\{ 1,2,\ldots ,tn\}$ for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$

\begin{conjecture} For all $k\geq 3$, $T_k=\Theta (k^2)$. \end{conjecture}

A $t$-coloring of $\{ 1,2,\ldots, tn\}$ is equinumerous if each color is used $n$ times. An arithmetic progression is rainbow if it does not containt two terms of the same color.

In \cite{JLMNR} it was proved that $\lfloor \frac{k^2}{4}\rfloor It is known that$T_3=3$(\cite{AF}, \cite{JR}) and$T_4 > 4$(\cite{CJR}). It is not hard to show that$T_k > k$for all$k\ge 5\$ (\cite{AF}).

## Bibliography

[AF] Maria Axenovich, Dmitri Fon-Der-Flaass: On rainbow arithmetic progressions, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 11, (2004), R1.

[CJR] David Conlon, Veselin Jungic, Rados Radoicic, \href[On the existence of rainbow 4-term arithmetic progressions]{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00373-007-0723-2}, Graphs and Combinatorics, 23 (2007), 249-254

*[JLMNR] Veselin Jungic, Jacob Licht (Fox), Mohammad Mahdian, Jaroslav Nesetril, Rados Radoicic : Rainbow arithmetic progressions and anti-Ramsey results, Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing - Special Issue on Ramsey Theory, 12, (2003), 599--620.

[JNR] Veselin Jungic, Jaroslav Nesetril, Rados Radoicic: Rainbow Ramsey theory, Integers, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Proceedings of the Integers Conference 2003 in Honor of Tom Brown, 5(2), (2005), A9.

[JR] Veselin Jungic, Rados Radoicic : Rainbow 3-term arithmetic progressions, Integers, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, 3, (2003), A18.

* indicates original appearance(s) of problem.

### Is this unsolved?

Looks like a nice problem, but is it still unsolved?