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numbers of each color from 4 form a monotone subsequence

Source: Czech and Slovak MO, III A, 2005 p6

January 12, 2020
ColoringmonotoneSequencecombinatoricspermutation

Problem Statement

Decide whether for every arrangement of the numbers 1,2,3,...,151,2,3, . . . ,15 in a sequence one can color these numbers with at most four different colors in such a way that the numbers of each color form a monotone subsequence.