Unique Sequences Containing No $k$-Term Arithmetic Progressions
In this paper, we are concerned with calculating $r(k, n)$, the length of the longest $k$-AP free subsequences in $1, 2, \ldots , n$. We prove the basic inequality $r(k, n) \le n − \lfloor m/2\rfloor$, where $n = m(k − 1) + r$ and $r < k − 1$. We also discuss a generalization of a famous conjecture of Szekeres (as appears in Erdős and Turán) and describe a simple greedy algorithm that appears to give an optimal $k$-AP free sequence infinitely often. We provide many exact values of $r(k, n)$ in the Appendix.
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