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  • 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…

  • Weakly Compact Factorization Through a Space With a BasisDavis, Figiel, Johnson and Pełczyński; raised again by Kevin Beanland, 1974

    Davis, Figiel, Johnson and Pełczyński showed their interpolation space admits a Schauder basis when the range space has a shrinking one. Can the DFJP space always be chosen with a basis whenever the range space has a basis? The paper…

  • The Elton–Odell theorem gives, in every infinite-dimensional normed space, a unit-sphere sequence with mutual distances at least 1+ε. Over C, identifying vectors differing by a unimodular scalar gives a toroidal distance. Does every…

  • Phelps–Rodriguez ConjectureDean Phelps, Rene S. Rodriguez, 1972

    Let p be a complex polynomial of degree n≥2 whose zeros all lie in the closed unit disk. For every zero a of p, there is a critical point ζ satisfying |ζ-a|<1, except when |a|=1 and p is a nonzero scalar multiple of z^n-a^n.

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  • Schiffer's Conjecture and the Pompeiu ProblemD. Pompeiu (1929); reformulated via Neumann eigenfunctions by M. M. Schiffer (1957), 1929

    If a smooth bounded domain in R^n admits a Neumann eigenfunction of the Laplacian that is constant on the boundary, must the domain be a ball? Pompeiu posed an equivalent integral-equation form in 1929; Schiffer's 1957 reformulation via…

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