Problem

Source: Bulgarian MO 2007, Day 2, Problem 4

Tags: combinatorics proposed, combinatorics



Let $k>1$ be a given positive integer. A set $S$ of positive integers is called good if we can colour the set of positive integers in $k$ colours such that each integer of $S$ cannot be represented as sum of two positive integers of the same colour. Find the greatest $t$ such that the set $S=\{a+1,a+2,\ldots ,a+t\}$ is good for all positive integers $a$. A. Ivanov, E. Kolev