{ "id": "1809.00922", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-09-04T12:48:44.000Z", "updated": "2018-09-04T12:48:44.000Z", "title": "Proof of a Conjecture of Galvin", "authors": [ "Dilip Raghavan", "Stevo Todorcevic" ], "comment": "22 pages, Submitted", "categories": [ "math.LO", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We prove that if the set of unordered pairs of real numbers is colored by finitely many colors, there is a set of reals homeomorphic to the rationals whose pairs have at most two colors. Our proof uses large cardinals and it verifies a conjecture of Galvin from the 1970s. We extend this result to an essentially optimal class of topological spaces in place of the reals.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-09-04T12:48:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "conjecture", "large cardinals", "real numbers", "essentially optimal class", "reals homeomorphic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }