Remarks on monochromatic configurations for finite colorings of the plane

Abstract

Gurevich had conjectured that for any finite coloring of the Euclidean plane, there always exists a triangle of unit area with monochromatic vertices. Graham ([5], [6]) gave the first proof of this conjecture; a much shorter proof has been obtained recently by Dumitrescu and Jiang [4]. A similar result in the case of a trapezium, claimed by the present authors in [3] does not hold due to an error and a weaker result is recovered for quadrilaterals in this paper. We also take up the original question of triangles