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A theorem of Dekking in the combinatorics of
words implies that there exists an injective order-preserving transformation
f : {0, 1, . . . , n} → {0, 1, . . . , 2n} with the restriction
f(i + 1) ≤ f(i) + 2 such that for every 5-term arithmetic progression
P its image f(P) is not an arithmetic progression. In this paper
we consider symmetric sets in place of arithmetic progressions
and prove lower and upper bounds for the maximum M = M(n)
such that every f as above preserves the symmetry of at least one
symmetric set S ⊆ {0, 1, . . . , n} with |S| ≥ M. |
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