Problems

For every n≥2 the paper exhibits an n-dimensional K-polystable toric Q-Fano variety whose alpha invariant is exactly 2/2n+1, answering a question of Liu and Zhuang on whether a K-semistable example exists with alpha invariant between 1/n+1…

How few vertices can a triangulation of RP^5 have? The paper presents a 6-dimensional centrally symmetric simplicial polytope whose antipodal boundary quotient gives a 24-vertex triangulation, far below previous constructions in the…

How well separated can a family of point-line pairs in the unit square be? For every ε > 0 there are arbitrarily large families (x_1,ℓ_1),…,(x_n,ℓ_n) in [0,1]^2 with x_i ∈ ℓ_i and dist(x_i,ℓ_j) ≥ n^-2/3-ε for all i ≠ j. Combined with…

Dyn and Farkhi conjectured that the squared Hausdorff distance from a compact set to its convex hull is subadditive under Minkowski addition. It holds in dimensions one and two and fails from dimension three; the sharp threshold exponent…

Casalaina-Martin and Zhjeqi proved that the first Chern class of every torsion-free coherent quotient of a tensor power of the logarithmic cotangent sheaf is pseudo-effective, noting in Remark 4.5 that torsion-freeness was imposed only for…

Pozdnyakov, Willatt, Bartók, Ortner, Csányi and Ceriotti showed in 2020 that the 2-, 3- and 4-point correlations of an atomic neighbour density are incomplete: noncongruent environments can share them exactly. Every degeneracy found since…

Let U_n⊂ R^n be the difference polytope of a regular n-simplex such that U_n circumscribes a sphere of diameter 1. Then every set of diameter 1 in R^n is covered by a rotated copy of U_n.

Ciliberto, Knutsen, Lesieutre, Lozovanu, Miranda, Mustopa and Testa asked a question about effective divisors of positive self-intersection on smooth projective surfaces. The answer is negative, witnessed by a very non-movable effective…

Kinoshita conjectured that every embedded projective plane in S^4 is reducible. False: an irreducible embedded projective plane exists in S^4. The construction also answers both parts of Problem 4.37 of the Kirby problem list.

Can a Cohn-Elkies auxiliary function certify the best known sphere packing in dimension 36 as optimal? No. An explicit dual-feasible point for the Cohn-Elkies linear program, built from weight-18 modular forms for Γ_0(24), shows the…

Ziegler proved every simplicial d-dimensional 0/1-polytope has at most 2d vertices, and asked whether attaining 2d vertices forces central symmetry (i.e. a 0/1 cross-polytope). Known true for d ≤ 6; open since ~2000.

Mauri and Moraga posed a two-part question about log Calabi-Yau pairs whose boundary decomposes into big divisors. Both parts have negative answers.

Kollár and Kovács asked whether the first cohomology of the structure sheaf of the fibers must be constant for a flat projective morphism to a smooth curve whose fibers are Cohen-Macaulay and reduced and whose generic fiber is smooth. It…

The total Chern class of Sym^d(C^n) as a torus representation is a symmetric polynomial whose coefficients were conjectured positive, with a binomial log-concavity refinement. Both are established.

What is the shortest curve guaranteed to reach the boundary of the golden gnomon - the isosceles triangle with equal sides 1 and apex angle 108^∘ - from an unknown starting position and heading? The optimum is a symmetric seven-piece path…

Ehrhart conjectured that a full-dimensional compact convex body in R^n whose barycenter is its unique interior lattice point has volume at most (n+1)^n/n!. With the inequality itself settled, the remaining question was which bodies attain…

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.

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…

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…

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…