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Lonely runner conjecture
Conjecture Suppose $k$ runners having distinct constant speeds start at a common point and run laps on a circular track with circumference 1. Then for...
Chowla's cosine problem
Problem Let $A \subseteq {\mathbb N}$ be a set of $n$ positive integers and set $$ m(A) = - \min_x \sum_{a \in A} \cos(ax). $$ What is $m(n) = \min_A...
Quartic rationally derived polynomials
Call a polynomial $p \in {\mathbb Q}[x]$ rationally derived if all roots of $p$ and the nonzero derivatives of $p$ are rational. Conjecture There doe...
Algebraic independence of pi and e
Conjecture $\pi$ and $e$ are algebraically independent...
Euler-Mascheroni constant
Question Is Euler-Mascheroni constant an transcendental number?...
Are all Fermat Numbers square-free?
Conjecture Are all Fermat Numbers $$ F_n = 2^{2^{n } } + 1 $$ Square-Free?...
Are there only finite Fermat Primes?
Conjecture A Fermat prime is a Fermat number $$ F_n = 2^{2^n } + 1 $$ that is prime. The only known Fermat primes are F_0 =3,F_1=5,F_2=17,F_3 =257,F_...
Are all Mersenne Numbers with prime exponent square-free?
Conjecture Are all Mersenne Numbers with prime exponent ${2^p-1}$ Square free?...
Sets with distinct subset sums
Say that a set $S \subseteq {\mathbb Z}$ has distinct subset sums if distinct subsets of $S$ have distinct sums. Conjecture There exists a fixed cons...
Odd incongruent covering systems
Conjecture There is no covering system whose moduli are odd, distinct, and greater than 1....
Davenport's constant
For a finite (additive) abelian group $G$, the Davenport constant of $G$, denoted $s(G)$, is the smallest integer $t$ so that every sequence of elemen...
Snevily's conjecture
Conjecture Let $G$ be an abelian group of odd order and let $A,B \subseteq G$ satisfy $|A| = |B| = k$. Then the elements of $A$ and $B$ may be ordered...