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Source. The implicit compactness step in Kříž's Theorem 3.2, published p. 903 (publisher PDF). This is a complete relative deduction, not a separately numbered source lemma.

Statement

Let FF be a finite configuration with an equivalence relation EE. Fix a dimension mm and an integer q≥1q\ge1. Suppose every qq-coloring of Rm\mathbb R^m has an isometrical embedding of FF whose colors are constant on each EE-class. Then some finite X⊆RmX\subseteq\mathbb R^m has the same property for every coloring X→[q]X\to[q].

Full proof relative to Rado selection

Suppose no finite XX works. For each finite X⊆RmX\subseteq\mathbb R^m, choose a coloring cX:X→[q]c_X:X\to[q] with no such embedding. The finite-choice selection principle gives a coloring c:Rm→[q]c:\mathbb R^m\to[q] agreeing, on every finite YY, with cXc_X for some finite X⊇YX\supseteq Y.

The hypothesis gives a copy ϕ(F)\phi(F) on which cc respects EE. Apply the selection property to Y=ϕ(F)Y=\phi(F). For some finite X⊇ϕ(F)X\supseteq\phi(F) the colors cXc_X agree with cc at every point of that copy. Thus the same embedding respects EE under cXc_X, contradicting its choice. A finite witness exists. □\square

Only finitely many point-color constraints are inspected on each copy. No requirement is imposed between distinct EE-classes. The case of the empty configuration is immediate with X=∅X=\varnothing.

Related argument. Moore's finite-witness lemma is the universal-relation specialization. The proof above handles the more general equivalence-color constraint needed by Kříž.

Bears on. Problem 174.