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.
60 problems
For an arrangement of n hyperplanes in P^3_C with ℓ intersection lines and p intersection points where at least three hyperplanes meet, the refined form of Purdy's inequality expects p - ℓ + n + 2 ≥ 0. An explicit arrangement built from…
If f(n) is the maximum total side length of n interior-disjoint squares packed in the unit square, is f(k^2 + 1) = k? An exact rational configuration packs 17 squares with total side length greater than 4, refuting the identity at k = 4.
For semifree noncommutative differential graded algebras over a nontrivial computable unital commutative ring, are stable tame isomorphism, quasi-isomorphism, or derived Morita equivalence algorithmically decidable? All three are…
Wegner conjectured in 1965 that every finite family R of axis-parallel rectangles satisfies τ(R) ≤ 2ν(R) - 1, where τ is the minimum number of piercing points and ν the largest pairwise-disjoint subfamily. False, by an explicit…
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 +…
The kissing number in 19 dimensions is at least 11948, improving the Cohn-Li bound by 256, via a binary code of length 19 and minimum distance 5 fed through the Cohn-Li odd-sign construction.
A conjecture attributed to Kontsevich holds that strata of quadratic differentials are aspherical, that is orbifold K(π,1) spaces. False: when there are at least four zeros or poles, no connected component of a genus-one stratum is an…
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For every δ > 0 and infinitely many n there is a set of n lines in the plane with no intersecting quadruple such that every subset of size at least n^4/5+δ contains three concurrent lines. This improves the bound for a dual form of a…
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…
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For a family F of an odd number n of unit disks in the plane, let OA(F) be the area covered by an odd number of disks. It was conjectured that OA(F) ≥ π, the area of a single disk. False: configurations exist with smaller odd area.
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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…
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For odd k with gcd(n,k) = gcd(n+1,k) = 1, is N_k(n) ≡ ⌊ (k+1)/4 ⌋ pmod 2, where N_k(n) counts pairs 1 ≤ b_i ≤ (k-1)/2 with b_1 + b_2 ≥ (k+1)/2 and b_2 ≡ n b_1 pmod k? Conjectured by Chen and Gendron; its proof removes a conditional step in…
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…