Erdős problem 198 · problems.science

The answer is no; Erdős and Graham report this was proved by Baumgartner, presumably referring to the paper [Ba75], which does not state this exactly, but the following simple construction is implicit in [Ba75].

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The statement for which Baumgartner actually writes a proof.

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1∀ (V : Type u_1) [inst : AddCommGroup V] [Module ℚ V],2  ∃ X, (∀ (Y : Set V), Y.IsAPOfLength ⊤ → (X ∩ Y).Nonempty) ∧ ∀ (Y : Set V), Y.IsAPOfLength 3 → (X ∩ Y).ncard ≤ 2

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