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GRAPHS ON EUCLIDEAN SPACES DEFINED USING TRANSCENDENTAL DISTANCES

Part of: Real and complex geometry Set theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2011

Péter Komjáth  and
James Schmerl
Péter Komjáth
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Eötvös University, PO Box 120, Budapest, 1518, Hungary (email: kope@cs.elte.hu)
James Schmerl
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3009, U.S.A. (email: james.schmerl@uconn.edu)
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Abstract

Given a set D of positive real numbers, let Xn(D) denote the graph with ℝn as the vertex set such that two points are joined if their distance is in D. Bukh conjectured in [Measurable sets with excluded distances. Geom. Funct. Anal.18 (2008), 668–697] that if D is algebraically independent, then Chr(Xn(D)), the chromatic number of Xn(D), is finite. Here we prove that Chr(Xn(D)) is countable and that, if n=2 , even the coloring number is countable. Furthermore, we prove that Chr (Y ) is countable, where Y is the following graph on ℂn: let 𝔽 be a countable subfield of ℂ and let D⊆ℂ be algebraically independent over 𝔽; join a,b∈ℂn if there is some p(x,y)∈𝔽[x,y] such that p(x,x) is identically zero and p(a,b)≠0 is algebraic over some d∈𝔽∪D.

MSC classification

Secondary: 03E05: Other combinatorial set theory 51M05: Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations
Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 2012

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