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First justify the finite bound used in the hint. Fix $k$. If no finite $T$ forced a monochromatic positive solution of ${\sum }_i{a}_i{x}_i=0$, consider the rooted tree whose level $t$ consists of the solution-free finite colorings of $[t]$, with restriction as the predecessor map. Every level is nonempty and every vertex has at most $k$ children. The König infinity lemma gives an infinite branch, hence a finite coloring of all positive integers with no such solution, contradicting the partition regular matrix hypothesis. This is the compactness bound for partition regularity.

Choose such a $T$ and let $S=\mathrm{lcm}(1,\dots ,T)$, the least common multiple. For a given finite coloring $\chi$ of the positive integers, pull it back to $[T]$ byEach $S/t$ is a positive integer in $[S]$. The defining property of $T$ gives $x_1,\dots ,x_n\in [T]$ of one color under $\tilde{\chi }$, with ${\sum }_i{a}_i{x}_i=0$. Set $y_i=S/x_i$. Their colors under $\chi$ agree, andThus reciprocal partition regularity follows. This construction is an involution on the divisors of $S$; it permits repeated coordinates and never requires a reciprocal of a positive integer to itself be integral without the common scaling factor $S$.