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Suppose that we have a finite colouring of \(\mathbb R\). What sumset-type structures can we hope to find in some colour class? One of our aims is to show that there is such a colouring for which no uncountable set has all of its pairwise sums monochromatic. We also show that there is such a colouring such that there is no infinite set X with \(X+X\) (the pairwise sums from X, allowing repetition) monochromatic. These results assume CH. In the other direction, we show that if each colour class is measurable, or each colour class is Baire, then there is an infinite set X (and even an uncountable X, of size the reals) with \(X+X\) monochromatic. We also give versions for all of these results for k-wise sums in place of pairwise sums.
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Neil Hindman acknowledges support received from the National Science Foundation (USA) via Grant DMS-1160566.
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Hindman, N., Leader, I. & Strauss, D. Pairwise sums in colourings of the reals. Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hambg. 87, 275–287 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12188-016-0166-x
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