On Four Colored Sets with Nondecreasing Diameter and the Erds-Ginzburg-Ziv Theorem

A set X, with a coloring Δ: X → Zm, is zero-sum if Σx∈XΔ(x) = 0. Let f(m, r) (let fzs (m, 2r)) be the least N such that for every coloring of 1,..., N with r colors (with elements from r disjoint copies of Zm) there exist monochromatic (zero-sum) m-element subsets B1 and B2, not necessarily the same color, such that (a) max(B1)-min(B1)≤max(B2)-min(B2), and (b) max (B1)