Equation 9 · Part 1 · FunSearch Found New Mathematics Without Ever Understanding the Problem
Symbol n
What this part means
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol n→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…pattern. For cap sets the forbidden pattern is a three-term arithmetic progression: three distinct points whose coordinates sum to zero mod three. Mathematicians want to know how the size of the largest cap set in n dimensions grows as n grows, and the honest answer, as of this writing, is that nobody knows exactly — they know it grows like for some constant c , and they know c is trapped between roughly 2.2208 and roughly 2.756, a gap that has resisted closing for over a decade [ 7 , 5 ] . The lower end…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [6] New Lower Bounds for Cap Sets ↗
- [5] Past and future of the cap set problem ↗
- [7] On large subsets of $F_q^n$ with no three-term arithmetic progression ↗
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