For positive integers n and k, the anti-van der Waerden number of Zn, denoted by aw(Zn, k), is the minimum number of colors needed to color the elements of the cyclic group of order n and guarantee there is a rainbow arithmetic progression of length k. Butler et al. showed a reduction formula for aw(Zn, 3) = 3 in terms of the prime divisors of n. In this paper, we analagously define the anti-va...

Prime numbers have fascinated people since ancient times. Since the last century, their study has acquired importance also on account of the crucial role played by them in cryptography and other related areas. One of the problems about primes which has intrigued mathematicians is whether it is possible to have long strings of primes with the successive primes differing by a fixed number, namely...

We look at arithmetic progressions on elliptic curves known as Huff curves. By an arithmetic progression on an elliptic curve, we mean that either the x or y-coordinates of a sequence of rational points on the curve form an arithmetic progression. Previous work has found arithmetic progressions on Weierstrass curves, quartic curves, Edwards curves, and genus 2 curves. We find an infinite number...

For a given positive integer k, sr(m, k) denotes the minimal positive integer such that every coloring of [n], n ≥ sr(m, k), that uses each color at most k times, yields a rainbow AP (m); that is, an m-term arithmetic progression, all of whose terms receive different colors. We prove that 17 8 k +O(1) ≤ sr(3, k) ≤ 15 7 k + O(1) and sr(m, 2) > ⌊ 2 2 ⌋, improving the previous bounds of Alon, Caro...

A sequence u = u1u2...un is said to be nonrepetitive if no two adjacent blocks of u are exactly the same. For instance, the sequence abcbcba contains a repetition bcbc, while abcacbabcbac is nonrepetitive. A well known theorem of Thue asserts that there are arbitrarily long nonrepetitive sequences over the set {a, b, c}. This fact implies, via König’s Infinity Lemma, the existence of an infinit...