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.
266 problems
The swap chain flips checkerboard 2×2 blocks to sample 0/1 matrices with fixed row and column sums. Kannan, Tetali and Vempala conjectured in 1997 that it mixes in polynomial time for all feasible margins; the lazy chain is shown to have…
Does a general pencil of plane cubics over C have exactly 12 common flex lines? Ciliberto, Miranda and Roé asked this in Remark 5.3 of their paper; the answer is yes.
Amdeberhan, Shareshian and Stanley showed a function from the theory of partition Eisenstein series counts alternating permutations with a given record partition, and asked whether a similar theory exists for record compositions,…
Two free ergodic measure-preserving flows whose L^1 full groups are isomorphic as abstract groups are conjugate up to a scalar time change. This proves the flow analogue of Belinskaya's theorem, answering a question posed by François Le…
Ji, Li and Wang conjectured in 2024 that every parallel chip-firing game on a finite connected graph whose chip count lies strictly between 2|E|-|V| and 2|E| has period exactly 2, generalizing the middle rung of Levine's devil's staircase…
For fixed d, can every d-dimensional feasible solution of the triangle-strengthened Max-Cut SDP be rounded in polynomial time with ratio strictly larger than α_GW? A rounding achieving α_GW + 2^-O(d) answers yes.
A precise asymptotic formula for the number of n × 4t partial Hadamard matrices in the regimes t/n^3 → ∞ and t/n^3 → Θ, reaching the cubic regime that previous approaches (de Launey-Levin and successors) could not.
Two open problems about extracting order from trees in real-valued functions. A quantitative function analogue of Hodges's tree-to-order extraction yields an at most double-exponential bound on dual sequential fat-shattering dimension,…
For |A| = n, how small can the cofactor set Q(A) = a / gcd(a,b) : a, b ∈ A be? The answer is h(n) = n^1/2 + o(1): a new upper bound h(n) ≤ n^1/2 exp(O(√log n)) matches the classical lower bound.
Is the exact nonreal spectral region of the four-cycle family of row-stochastic nonnegative matrices determined by the Karpelevich constraint, as Ran and Teng conjectured in 2024?
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Douglas and Yang attach to each nonzero vector x of a quasinilpotent operator T a local resolvent-growth exponent k_x, giving the power set Λ(T) = k_x : x ≠ 0. Ji and Zhang asked whether 1 always belongs to Λ(T). It does, for every…
Cornulier asked, in a MathOverflow discussion, whether amenability of a module over an associative algebra depends on the ground field. It does not: the notion is invariant under change of base field.
Bounds the weighted sum ∑ 1/(a log a) taken over primitive sets of integers (sets where no element divides another).
Can the critical-exponent relation a + b = 1 at the jamming transition, observed numerically to high precision in the full replica-symmetry-breaking solution of hard spheres, be derived analytically from the scaling equations?
Aluffi, Chen and Marcolli conjectured that the Poincare polynomial of the Deligne-Mumford moduli space overlineM_0,n of stable n-pointed rational curves has only real roots. True, with simple roots and strict interlacing between…
Can one construct a plain-model, efficient, information-theoretically secure one-time unclonable-encryption scheme for one classical bit with exponentially small adversarial advantage?
Maz'ya and Shaposhnikova introduced a non-classical maximal operator M^diamond, the maximal convolution with the vector-valued signum kernel truncated to centered balls. One of Maz'ya's 75 open problems in analysis asks whether it can be…
For the adjacent-transposition chain on S_n with a regular parameter vector, Fill's spectral gap conjecture (recently resolved) leaves open the characterization of the equality cases. The paper settles them, constructing the additional…
Whether the real Kalton-Peck space Z_2 is isomorphic to its hyperplanes. It is not: no hyperplane of Z_2 is isomorphic to Z_2, proved through a rank parity theorem for symplectic spaces applied to the Kalton-Swanson symplectic structure.