\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf Randall McCutcheon} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf The Wildcard Set's Size in the Density Hales-Jewett Theorem} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % In this paper prove results concerning restrictions on the cardinality of the wildcard set in the density Hales-Jewett theorem, establishing in particular that for general $k$ one may choose this cardinality from any IP set and that for $k=2$ it may be chosen to be a square, thus providing an abstract extension of S\'ark\"ozy's theorem on square differences in sets of positive upper density. \end{document} .