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  • Moraga conjectured, and Kollár and Zhuang recorded, an odd-dimensional extension of the rank bound for faithful abelian p-group actions on smooth Calabi–Yau varieties. The paper disproves it.

    disproved

    1 attempt

  • Erdős Problem #870Paul Erdős, Melvyn Nathanson, 1979

    Let k≥ 3 and A be an additive basis of order k. Does there exist a constant c=c(k)>0 such that if r(n)≥ clog n for all large n (where r(n) counts representations of n as a sum of at most k elements of A) then A must contain a minimal basis…

    candidate

    1 attempt

  • Log-Submodularity of Zonoid VolumeStated as Conjecture 4.16 in the zonoid-inequality literature, 2023

    The conjecture that volume is log-submodular under Minkowski addition on zonoids, that is |A||A+B+C| <= |A+B||A+C|. Disproved by a four-dimensional zonotope generated by a 2-modular matrix together with two segments. Several related local…

    disproved

    1 attempt

  • The da Silva Machado-Seade Conjectureda Silva Machado, Jose Seade

    da Silva Machado and Seade conjectured that weighted homogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities are exactly those admitting a logarithmic vector field transverse to the link. True: for a reduced isolated hypersurface germ in C^n+1…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • In the square Gaussian binary MIMO model y = √ρ/N Hx^⋆ + w, exhaustive maximum-likelihood detection recovers x^⋆ once ρ > 2log N, while sphere decoding at that threshold scale costs expΘ(N/log N). Whether any polynomial-time detector…

    candidate

    1 attempt

  • Existence of Bipartite Bound InformationNicolas Gisin & Stefan Wolf, 2000

    Does bipartite bound information exist: classical correlations between two parties and an eavesdropper that cost secret bits to create, yet from which no secret key can ever be distilled?

    solved

    1 attempt

  • Composites Among [ξ 7^n] and Right-Truncatable Primes in Base 7Forman and Shapiro (1967), Dubickas and Novikas (2005), 2005

    For every real ξ>0 the sequence of integer parts [ξ 7^n], n=0,1,2,…, contains infinitely many composite numbers. Second, there is no infinite right truncatable prime in base~7.

    solved

    1 attempt

  • Prim-Dijkstra routing interpolates between a minimum spanning tree and a shortest-path tree, and has been used and improved in VLSI physical design since the early 1990s, but the complexity of the terminal-only Manhattan decision problem…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • Remodeling for the Affine Binary Dihedral Calabi–Yau ThreefoldBouchard, Klemm, Mariño and Pasquetti (remodeling conjecture)

    The paper proves a closed-string remodeling statement for the affine binary dihedral Calabi–Yau orbifold threefold, a target outside the toric setting of the Bouchard–Klemm–Mariño–Pasquetti remodeling conjecture, replacing the toric mirror…

    variant

    1 attempt

  • What is the optimal uniform continuity bound for quantum conditional entropy in trace distance, depending only on the dimension of the conditioned system? The sharp bound h_2(δ) + δ log(d^2 - 1) up to δ = 1 - d^-2, conjectured by Wilde, is…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • The Bandelt-Dress Quartet Distance ConjectureHans-Jurgen Bandelt, Andreas Dress, 1986

    The quartet distance counts the four-leaf subsets on which two binary phylogenetic trees display different topologies. Bandelt and Dress conjectured the maximum over trees on n leaves. Proved: it is (2/3 + o(1))binomn4, by reducing…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • The Coxeter Code Minimum Distance ConjectureNolan Coble, Alexander Barg, 2025

    Coble and Barg introduced binary Coxeter codes, the span of indicators of standard cosets of fixed rank in a finite Coxeter system, generalizing Reed-Muller codes, and proposed a conjectural value for the minimum distance of a general…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • Gaussian Mass Maximality of the Integer LatticeOded Regev, Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, 2017

    Regev and Stephens-Davidowitz conjectured that Z^n maximizes the Gaussian mass Θ_L(t) = ∑_x ∈ L e^-t|x|^2 over stable lattices for every t > 0. The sharp inequality holds for every integral unimodular lattice of rank n ≤ 32, with equality…

    partial

    1 attempt

  • Kawauchi conjectured that the Conway polynomial of an amphicheiral knot factors as ∇_K(z) = f(z)f(-z) for an integer polynomial f. Hartley proved it for negative amphicheiral knots and Ermotti, Hongler and Weber published the first…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • The dissipative barrier method suppresses spectral pollution when a differential operator is truncated, but can it hide genuine spectral points? Known as the graveyard problem, the question stayed open in dimension two and above for more…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • The Ellipsoid Fitting ConjectureJames Saunderson, Pablo A. Parrilo, Alan S. Willsky, 2013

    Given n independent standard Gaussian vectors in R^d, an ellipsoid fit is a positive semidefinite S with x_i' S x_i = d for every i. Saunderson, Parrilo and Willsky conjectured that this semidefinite feasibility problem has a sharp…

    solved

    1 attempt

  • Donner proved in 1992 that the list color function P_ℓ(G,k) equals the chromatic polynomial P(G,k) once k is large. Kaul and Mudrock asked whether the analogue holds for Hanlon's unlabeled chromatic polynomial, and could not settle even…

    solved

    1 attempt · a verdict recorded from elsewhere

  • A monic prime P of F_q[T] is a c-Wieferich prime if ρ_P(1) ≡ 1 bmod P^2 for the Carlitz module ρ. On limited data and proofs in degrees 2 and 3, Thakur suggested in 2015 that in odd characteristic every c-Wieferich prime has degree…

    disproved

    1 attempt · a verdict recorded from elsewhere

  • Does the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure always control the false-discovery rate at its nominal level for correlated two-sided Gaussian p-values? A factor model gives FDR > 0.0104 at nominal level α = 0.01.

    disproved

    1 attempt

  • For the set of n by n doubly stochastic matrices, Kim and Roush conjectured in 1981 that for odd n = 2k+1 > 1 the maximum of per(I-A) equals 3 times 2^(k-2), attained by an explicit block construction. Proved in full, and the maximizers…

    solved

    1 attempt