Instytut Matematyczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk / pl / Wydawnictwa / Czasopisma IMPAN / Fundamenta Mathematicae / Wszystkie zeszyty

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Brown’s lemma states that in every finite coloring of the natural numbers there is a homogeneous piecewise syndetic set. We show that Brown’s lemma is equivalent to $\mathsf {I}\Sigma ^0_2$ over $\mathsf {RCA}_0^*$. We show in contrast that (infinite) van der Waerden’s theorem is equivalent to $\mathsf {B}\Sigma ^0_2$ over $\mathsf {RCA}_0^*$. We finally consider the finite version of Brown’s lemma and show that it is provable in $\mathsf {RCA}_0$ but not in $\mathsf {RCA}_0^*$.