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Ultrafilter with arithmetic-progression-rich members (U⊆AP)

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An ultrafilter on the positive integers with every member containing finite arithmetic progressions of arbitrarily large length. The Van der Waerden theorem and ultrafilter selection from a partition-rich family give existence. Such an ultrafilter must contain the complement of every set with bounded arithmetic-progression length, and it is a nonprincipal ultrafilter. No corresponding ultrafilter can have an infinite arithmetic progression in every member, by the dyadic block obstruction to infinite arithmetic progressions.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2004 / iii / Paper 12 / 1 / Solution

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