Problems
Everything in the archive: the problem as it was posed, what has been attempted against it, and who checked each attempt. The mark down the left of the list says who has looked — a person, a machine, or nobody yet. Human reviews and machine checks are counted separately and are never added together.
20 problems
Determine the leading asymptotic of the largest eigenvalue of the N-Majorana quartic SYK Hamiltonian as N → ∞. The preprint proves λ_1/√N → 4∫_0^∞ g_0(t)^4 dt ≈ 0.32504 almost surely, via the limiting free energy at every fixed positive…
Does there exist an integer polynomial f of degree at least two and a set A ⊆ Z such that every integer has a unique representation n = a + f(k)? A manuscript claims the thirteenth powers admit a tiling complement.
Let m_1≤…≤ m_k and n be sufficiently large. If T is a tree on n vertices and G is the complete multipartite graph with vertex class sizes m_1,…,m_k, prove that R(T,G)≤ (χ(G)-1)(R(T,K_m_1,m_2)-1)+m_1.
Question 8 of the First Proof experiment (Abouzaid et al.) asks whether a polyhedral Lagrangian surface with exactly four faces meeting at every vertex necessarily admits a Lagrangian smoothing. The research report assembles…
Every finite connected simple graph G satisfies α(G)≥ r(G)+ln(ρ(G)), where α(G) is the independence number, r(G) is the radius, and ρ(G) is the minimum number of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths whose vertices cover V(G).
Among all nonconstant monic polynomials f whose roots lie in [-1, 1], determine inf_f |x ∈ R : |f(x)| < 1|.
Given a binary matrix M, decide whether its columns can be permuted so that every row contains at most two blocks of 1s and, if it contains two blocks, they are separated by at most one 0. The claimed theorem proves that this (2,1)-Gapped…
For P_n(z) = ∑_k=0^n ε_k z^k with independent uniform signs, does the number R_n of roots in |z| ≤ 1 satisfy R_n/(n/2) → 1 almost surely? The manuscript proves the strong law with R_n = n/2 + O_ω(n^149/150).
Let X be a set of cardinality ℵ_ω and f a function from the finite subsets of X to X such that f(A)not∈ A for all A. Must there exist an infinite independent Y⊆ X, i.e. with f(B)not∈ Y for all finite B⊂ Y? Claimed resolution: the positive…
What is the largest possible measure of a subset of a radius-R disk in R^2 containing no pair of points at a positive integer distance? A Poisson-Bessel kernel argument gives M(R) ≪ R^1/2; with Sárközy's lower construction, M(R) = R^1/2 +…
Does every nontrivial finite simple graph have noninteger Sombor energy? If ρ_1,…,ρ_n are the eigenvalues of the Sombor matrix of a graph G, its Sombor energy is E_SO(G)=∑_i=1^n|ρ_i|. The conjecture asserted that E_SO(G)∉ Z for every…
Let k≥ 3 and f_k(N) be the maximum of ∑_n∈ A1/n over all A⊆1,…,N containing no k subsets with the same pairwise least common multiple. Estimate f_k(N). The claimed answer: f_k(N)=(log N)^γ_k+o(1), where γ_k is a weighted generalization of…
Is there an entire non-zero function f:C→ C such that, for any infinite sequence n_1<n_2<…, the set z: f^(n_k)(z)=0 for some k≥ 1 is everywhere dense? The literal question is trivial for polynomials, so the claims address the…
Let n_1<n_2<… be a lacunary sequence of integers and f∈ L^2([0,1]) with nth Fourier partial sum f_n. Is there an absolute constant C>0 such that if | f-f_n|_2 ≪ (logloglog n)^-C then 1/N∑_k≤ Nf(α n_k)→∫_0^1 f for almost every α? A preprint…
Must every sufficiently large node set admit bounded labels that force any polynomial fitting almost all labels at degree below (1+ε)n to have arbitrarily large uniform norm? Claimed via Beurling density for Bernstein spaces.
The Exact Matching problem asks whether a bipartite graph with edges colored red and blue admits a perfect matching with exactly t red edges. Introduced by Papadimitriou and Yannakakis in 1982, it has been in randomized polynomial time…
For S(x) = #(a,b) : a + b ≤ x, σ(a) + σ(b) = σ(a+b), is S(x) ~ cx? The preprint claims S(x) grows faster than x (log x)^R for every fixed R, ruling out the linear asymptotic.
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…
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…
Let L(x^ay^b)=a! b! on C[x,y]. The Factorial Conjecture asks whether L(f^m)=0 for every m≥ 1 forces f=0. The homogeneous two-variable case was settled by Liu and Sun; the inhomogeneous problem does not reduce to it, because radial…