网格染色与同色矩形
Color Complex
题目详情
在二维平面上所有整数点 都被染成黑色或白色。
问:是否必然存在一个与坐标轴平行的矩形,使其四个顶点同色?
英文原题
On a 2D complex plane, all the integer-component points are coloured either White or Black. Is Possible to find a rectangle parallel to axis which has all corners of same color?
解析
必然存在。
固定一行(例如 )。其中必有无限多个点同为黑或同为白。取其中一种颜色(不妨设白色)对应的无限多列集合 。
再看下一行 在这些列上的颜色:要么在 中仍有无限多列为白色(则两行 与任取两列构成同色矩形),要么在 中有无限多列为黑色(记为 )。
继续看 在 上的颜色:要么有无限多列为黑色(则用 得到黑色矩形),要么有无限多列为白色(则用 得到白色矩形)。
因此一定能找到两行与两列,使四个角同色。
英文解析
Yes, it must exist.
Fix one row, for example . Among the infinitely many lattice points on that row, infinitely many have the same color; call the infinite set of such columns . Now inspect another row, say , restricted to the columns in . If infinitely many of those positions have the same color as the first row, any two such columns form a monochromatic rectangle with rows and . Otherwise, infinitely many positions in row must have the opposite color; then repeat the same argument with that color. In either case, two rows and two columns can be chosen whose four corner points have the same color.