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Markov Processes and Ramsey Theory for Trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2003

Hillel Furstenberg*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Benjamin Weiss*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

Abstract

We consider analogues of van der Waerden's theorem and Szemerédi's theorem, where arithmetic progressions are replaced by binary trees with a fixed distance between successive vertices. The proofs are based on some novel recurrence properties for Markov processes.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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