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Here a monochromatic set must mean an infinite homogeneous set for a colouring: every singleton is a finite monochromatic set. The requested phenomenon holds for every finite $n\ge 2$. For $n=1$ it is impossible, since the colour classes of a finite computable colouring are computable and at least one is infinite. We treat this necessary qualification explicitly.

We construct a finite-injury computable colouring of pairs with no infinite computably enumerable homogeneous set, which is stronger than the requested absence of a recursive one. Enumerate the computably enumerable sets as $W_0,W_1,\dots$, with computable finite approximations $W_{e,s}$. Requirement $e$ seeks distinct markers $a_e,b_e\in W_e$. At stage $s$, consider indices $e\le s$ not currently assigned markers. Choose the least one, if any, for which $W_{e,s}$ has two elements outside all markers of higher-priority indices $d<e$. Assign two such elements as its markers, using a fixed least-element rule, and cancel all markers at lower-priority indices. Do nothing if no such index exists. The active markers are therefore pairwise distinct at every stage.

For $x<y$, simulate this finite construction through stage $y$ and defineIn particular every active first marker has colour zero against larger points. This is a total computable function: no question about eventual enumeration or eventual stabilization is used in computing a given pair.

Induction on $e$ proves finite injury. Once the finitely many higher requirements have stabilized, requirement $e$ is never cancelled again. If it has markers they stay fixed. If $W_e$ is infinite, it eventually supplies two points outside the finite collection of higher markers, so it becomes eligible and is assigned markers; only finitely many higher indices could delay its assignment. Thus an infinite $W_e$ eventually has permanent distinct markers $a_e,b_e$. Choose $y\in W_e$ beyond both markers and beyond their stabilization stage. ThenSo $W_e$ is not homogeneous. Every infinite recursive set is computably enumerable, proving the desired obstruction. For $n>2$, colour an increasing $n$-tuple by the pair formed by its first two elements. Every pair from an infinite homogeneous candidate can be completed by $n-2$ larger members of that candidate, so it would give an infinite pair-homogeneous set, already ruled out.

The uncountable positive theorem is the Erdős-Rado theorem for finite arities. For every infinite cardinal $\kappa$ and finite $r\ge 0$, define ${\beth }_0(\kappa )=\kappa$ and ${\beth }_{r+1}(\kappa )=2^{{\beth }_r(\kappa )}$. ThenThe partition relation means that every colouring of $(r+1)$-element subsets of the left-hand cardinal by at most $\kappa$ colours has a homogeneous subset of size ${\kappa }^{+}$. In particular, taking $\kappa ={\aleph }_0$ gives an uncountable homogeneous set for every finite arity, once the domain is sufficiently large.

We prove the end-homogeneity lemma needed for induction. Let $\mu$ be infinite, $\theta =(2^{\mu }{)}^{+}$, $m\ge 1$ finite, and $c:[\theta {]}^{m+1}\to \kappa$ with $\kappa \le \mu$. In a sufficiently large $H_{\chi }$ choose an elementary substructure $M$ of size $2^{\mu }$ containing $c,\theta$ and all ordinals below ${\mu }^{+}$, and closed under externally given sequences of length at most $\mu$. Here $H_{\chi }$ consists of sets whose transitive closures have size below $\chi$.

To justify that closure, begin with a hull containing the indicated parameters and ordinals. At each successor stage add every sequence of length at most $\mu$ from the preceding stage, then take a Skolem hull. There are at most $(2^{\mu }{)}^{\mu }=2^{\mu }$ such sequences. Iterate for ${\mu }^{+}$ stages and take elementary unions at limits. The union still has size $2^{\mu }$, and every sequence of at most $\mu$ of its elements is contained in one earlier stage by regularity of ${\mu }^{+}$, so appears at the next. This proves the claimed closed first-order model rather than assuming its existence.

Let $\beta =\sup (M\cap \theta )<\theta$. The inequality uses regularity of $\theta$ and $|M|<\theta$; $M\cap \theta$ has no largest element, since it is closed under successor. Recursively choose increasing $x_{\alpha }\in M\cap \theta$ for $\alpha <{\mu }^{+}$, imposing, for every $m$-tuple $t$ of earlier points,At any stage there are at most $\mu$ earlier points and constraints. Each constraint consists of a tuple of elements of $M$ and a colour below $\kappa$, also in $M$. The entire constraint code therefore belongs to $M$ by closure. The bound above the previous points belongs to $M$ as well. Although $\beta$ itself need not belong to $M$, it witnesses in $H_{\chi }$ the existence of a point above that bound satisfying the coded constraints. Elementarity supplies such a point inside $M$. This proves the recursion.

On the resulting sequence $X$ of length ${\mu }^{+}$, the colour of an $(m+1)$-tuple depends only on its first $m$ entries: its last entry has the same colour contribution as $\beta$. This is the required closed elementary-submodel construction of an end-homogeneous sequence.

Now prove the theorem by induction on $r$. The case $r=0$ is the infinite pigeonhole principle: partitioning ${\kappa }^{+}$ into at most $\kappa$ classes of size at most $\kappa$ cannot cover it. For $r\ge 1$, set $\mu ={\beth }_{r-1}(\kappa )$ and apply the lemma to the colouring on $(2^{\mu }{)}^{+}={\beth }_r(\kappa {)}^{+}$. Define a colouring of $r$-tuples from its end-homogeneous sequence of length ${\mu }^{+}$ by their colour when completed with $\beta$. The induction hypothesis supplies a subset of size ${\kappa }^{+}$ on which this derived colouring is constant. Every original $(r+1)$-tuple from that subset has the derived colour of its first $r$ entries, and is therefore monochromatic. This completes the proof.

The unrestricted infinite-exponent situation is very different under AC. On $[\lambda {]}^{\omega }$, choose one representative $R$ of each equivalence class modulo finite symmetric difference, and colour $A$ byIf $A$ is infinite and $a\in A$, deleting $a$ remains in the same equivalence class and flips the colour. Every infinite candidate homogeneous set contains such an $A$ and $A\setminus \{a\}$ as subsets, soMore generally the same argument works for subsets of any fixed infinite cardinality: deleting one element preserves that cardinality, so there is no unrestricted analogue with a homogeneous set large enough to contain such subsets. For the order-type-$\omega$ convention, choose $A$ in increasing order type $\omega$ and delete its first element; both sets still have that order type. Thus the distinction from the finite-arity theorem is genuine, not merely a notational ambiguity. This argument uses choice of representatives and is not a claim about every definability-restricted infinite-arity colouring.