Mathematics Problem Archive

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AMR-027-0301
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Hardness at the Cheeger square-root gap

v1.3 research notes

Does there exist $c>0$ such that it is NP-hard, given a graph $G$ and $\phi>0$, to distinguish $h_G\le\phi$ from $h_G\ge c\sqrt{\phi}$?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0302
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Certifying that matrices are PSD

v1.3 research notes

Given a symmetric matrix ${M}$ with small condition number, is there a quasi-linear time (on ${n}$ and the number of non-zero entries of ${M}$ ) proce...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0502
Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Certifying the Restricted Isometry Property

v1.3 research notes

Let $N = 2M$ . For which $s$ is there a polynomial time algorithm that is guaranteed to, with high probability, certify that a gaussian matrix $A$ is ...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0601
Open

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Random Partial Discrete Fourier Transform

v1.3 research notes

Consider a $A\in\mathbb{C}^{M\times N}$ obtained by sampling random rows of a Discrete Fourier Tranform. How large does $M$ need to be in order for, w...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0604
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — The Paley ETF Conjecture

v1.3 research notes

Does the Paley Equiangular tight frame satisfy the Restricted Isometry Property pass the square root bottleneck? (even by logarithmic factors?)....

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0701
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Gilbert-Varshamov bound

v1.3 research notes

Explicit deterministic constructions of codes achieving the GV bound Is the GV bound tight?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0702
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Boolean classification and annulus conjecture

v1.3 research notes

Prove or disprove: $R_A(\alpha n,\beta n,n)=\alpha+(1-\alpha)R_A(1,\beta n,(1-\alpha)n)+o(1)$....

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0704
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — The Deletion Channel

v1.3 research notes

What are the asymptotics of $\mathcal{D}\left(n;\frac12\right)$ ? \item An interesting aspect of the Deletion Channel is that different messages may h...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0802
Open

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Sum of Squares approximation ratio for Max-Cut

v1.3 research notes

What is the approximation ratio (or integrality gap) for the Sum-of-Squares (SOS) relaxation of degree 4 for the Max-Cut problem? What about other con...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0804
Open

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — The Paley Clique Problem

v1.3 research notes

What is the clique number of the Paley graph? Can the the SOS degree 4 analogue of the theta number help upper bound it?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-0805
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Maximum and minimum bisections on random regular graphs

v1.3 research notes

Given a $d$ -regular graph on $n$ nodes $G$ . Let $MaxBis(G)$ and $MinBis(G)$ denote, respectively, the size of its largest and smallest bisection. Is...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-1001
Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Angular Synchronization via Projected Power Method

v1.3 research notes

Does the projected power method converge (with high probability) to the optimal solution of the angular synchronization problem with (small enough) ga...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-1002
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Sharp tightness of the Angular Synchronization SDP

v1.3 research notes

Is the SDP for angular synchronization tight (with high probability) for noise levels $\sigma$ essentially until the solution of angular synchronizati...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-1003
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Tightness of the Multireference Alignment SDP

v1.3 research notes

For which levels of noise is the SDP for Multireference Alignment tight?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-027-1004
Partially Solved

10 Lectures and 42 Open Problems — Consistency and sample complexity of Multireference Alignment

v1.3 research notes

Is the Maximum likelihood for Multireference Alignment consistent? (after fixing the power spectrum) What is the sample complexity of the Multireferen...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0013
Open

Point Location in 3D Subdivision

v1.3 research notes

Is there an $O(n)$-space data structure that supports $O(\log n)$-time point-location queries in a three-dimensional subdivision of $n$ faces?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0028
Open

Flip Graph Connectivity in 3D

v1.3 research notes

Is the flip graph connected for general-position points in $\mathbb{R}^3$? Given a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$, the flip graph has a node for ...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0029
Open

Hamiltonian Tetrahedralizations

v1.3 research notes

Can every convex polytope in $\mathbb{R}^3$ be partitioned into tetrahedra such that the dual graph has a Hamiltonian path?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0038
Open

Compatible Triangulations

v1.3 research notes

Is it true that every two sets of $n$ planar points in general position with the same number points on their convex hulls have compatible triangulatio...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0040
Open

The Number of Pointed Pseudotriangulations

v1.3 research notes

For a planar point set $S$, is the number of pointed pseudotriangulations always at least the number of triangulations? A pseudotriangle is a planar p...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-054-0063
Partially Solved

Dynamic Planar Nearest Neighbors

v1.3 research notes

Is there a data structure maintaining a set of $n$ points in the plane subject to insertions, deletions, and nearest-neighbor queries in $O(\log n)$ t...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-092-0002
Open

Computational Diffie–Hellman problem

v1.3 research notes

Given a prime modulus $p$, a group generator $g$, and the public values $g^a$ and $g^b$ modulo $p$, can the shared value $g^{ab}\bmod p$ be computed e...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-093-0101
Open

Hartmanis–Stearns conjecture

v1.3 research notes

If the base-$b$ expansion of a real number can be emitted in real time by a multitape Turing machine (bounded time between successive digits), must th...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-108-0018
Partially Solved

3.10 (Futer, Schleimer) — A practical 3-manifold homeomorphism algorithm

v1.3 research notes

Is there a practical algorithm to test whether a pair of $3$-manifolds are homeomorphic?...

L3
Computer Science
AMR-108-0033
Open

5.8 (Schleimer) — Why SnapPy works in practice

v1.3 research notes

Give a rigorous explanation for why SnapPy works so well in practice....

L3
Computer Science
AMR-108-0058
Partially Solved

8.4 (Schleimer) — Detecting reducible Heegaard splittings

v1.3 research notes

Is there an algorithm to detect whether a Heegaard splitting is reducible and, if so, find a reducing curve?...

L3
Computer Science