Mathematics Problem Archive
Are there any Wieferich primes in base 47
v1.3 research notesAre there any Wieferich primes in base 47?...
Are there infinitely many balanced primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many balanced primes?...
Are there infinitely many cluster primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many cluster primes?...
Are there infinitely many cousin primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many cousin primes?...
Are there infinitely many Cullen primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Cullen primes?...
Are there infinitely many Euclid primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Euclid primes?...
Are there infinitely many Fibonacci primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Fibonacci primes?...
Are there infinitely many Kummer primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Kummer primes?...
Are there infinitely many Kynea primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Kynea primes?...
Are there infinitely many Lucas primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Lucas primes?...
Are there infinitely many Newman–Shanks–Williams primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Newman–Shanks–Williams primes?...
Are there infinitely many palindromic primes to every base
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many palindromic primes to every base?...
Are there infinitely many Pell primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Pell primes?...
Are there infinitely many Pierpont primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Pierpont primes?...
Are there infinitely many prime quadruplets
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many prime quadruplets?...
Are there infinitely many prime triplets
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many prime triplets?...
Siegel's conjecture
v1.3 research notesSiegel's conjecture: are there infinitely many regular primes, and if so is their natural density as a subset of all primes $e^{-1/2}$?...
Are there infinitely many sexy primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many sexy primes?...
Are there infinitely many Wagstaff primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Wagstaff primes?...
Are there infinitely many Wieferich primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Wieferich primes?...
Are there infinitely many Wilson primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Wilson primes?...
Are there infinitely many Wolstenholme primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Wolstenholme primes?...
Are there infinitely many Woodall primes
v1.3 research notesAre there infinitely many Woodall primes?...
Can a prime p satisfy $2^{p-1}\equiv 1\pmod{p^2}$ and $3^{p-1}\equiv 1\pmod{p^2}$ simultaneously
v1.3 research notesCan a prime p satisfy $2^{p-1}\equiv 1\pmod{p^2}$ and $3^{p-1}\equiv 1\pmod{p^2}$ simultaneously?...
Does every prime number appear in the Euclid–Mullin sequence
v1.3 research notesDoes every prime number appear in the Euclid–Mullin sequence?...
What is the smallest Skewes's number
v1.3 research notesWhat is the smallest Skewes's number?...
Wikipedia number-theory item 171: For any given integer a > 0, are there infinitely many Lucas–Wieferich primes associated with the pa…
v1.3 research notesFor any given integer a > 0, are there infinitely many Lucas–Wieferich primes associated with the pair (a, −1)? (Specially, when a = 1, this is the Fi...
For any given integer a > 0, are there infinitely many primes p such that a^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p^{2})
v1.3 research notesFor any given integer a > 0, are there infinitely many primes p such that a^{p − 1} ≡ 1 (mod p^{2})?...
Wikipedia number-theory item 173: For any given integer b which is not a perfect power and not of the form −4k^{4} for integer k, are…
v1.3 research notesFor any given integer b which is not a perfect power and not of the form −4k^{4} for integer k, are there infinitely many repunit primes to base b?...
Wikipedia number-theory item 174: For any given integers $k\geq 1, b\geq 2, c\neq 0$, with gcd(k, c) = 1 and gcd(b, c) = 1, are there…
v1.3 research notesFor any given integers $k\geq 1, b\geq 2, c\neq 0$, with gcd(k, c) = 1 and gcd(b, c) = 1, are there infinitely many primes of the form $(k\times b^n+c...
Is every Fermat number $2^{2^n} + 1$ composite for $n > 4$
v1.3 research notesIs every Fermat number $2^{2^n} + 1$ composite for $n > 4$?...
Is 509,203 the lowest Riesel number
v1.3 research notesIs 509,203 the lowest Riesel number?...
Pollock's octahedral-number conjecture
v1.3 research notesIs every positive integer expressible as a sum of at most seven octahedral numbers?...
Global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture
v1.3 research notesIn the global Gan–Gross–Prasad setting, is nonvanishing of the relevant $H$-period on an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation equivalent to...
Greenberg's pseudo-null conjecture
v1.3 research notesLet $F$ be totally real, let $\widetilde F$ be the compositum of all $\mathbb Z_p$-extensions of $F$, let $\widetilde L$ be its maximal unramified abe...
Iwasawa mu-invariant conjecture for number fields
v1.3 research notesFor every number field $K$ and every prime $\ell$, does the Iwasawa invariant $\mu_\ell(K)$ vanish?...
Greenberg's p-rationality conjecture
v1.3 research notesFor every odd prime $p$ and every positive integer $t$, does there exist a $p$-rational number field $K$ with $\operatorname{Gal}(K/\mathbb Q)\cong(\m...
Brumer–Stark conjecture
v1.3 research notesFor a finite abelian extension of number fields, does the Brumer–Stark element have the predicted ideal-class annihilation and principalization proper...
Second Hardy–Littlewood zeta-function conjecture
v1.3 research notesFor every $\varepsilon>0$, do constants $T_0(\varepsilon),c(\varepsilon)>0$ exist such that, for $T\geq T_0$ and $H=T^{1/2+\varepsilon}$, the number $...
Topology of planar Brownian trace
v1.3 research notesLet $X_t$ be two-dimensional Brownian motion. (i) For every pair $x,y \notin X[0,1]$, is there a Jordan arc $\Gamma$ containing $x$ and $y$ such that ...
Percolation dimension of planar Brownian trace
v1.3 research notesFor a set $B$, define its percolation dimension as the infimum of the Hausdorff dimensions of Jordan arcs $A\subset B$ containing at least two distinc...
Efficient couplings in acute triangles
v1.3 research notesLet $D$ be a triangle whose angles are all strictly less than $\pi/2$, and let $\mu_2>0$ be the second eigenvalue of the Laplacian on $D$ with Neumann...
Convergence of synchronous reflected-Brownian couplings
v1.3 research notesLet $D\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ be a connected open set with smooth boundary, and let $X,Y$ be synchronously coupled reflected Brownian motions in $D$ driv...
Non-extinction of a Fleming–Viot particle model
v1.3 research notesLet $N$ particles move as independent Brownian motions in a bounded connected open set $D\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. Whenever a particle hits the complement...
Concatenated bounded Brownian pieces
v1.3 research notesFor each $k\in\mathbb{Z}$, let $B^k$ be Brownian motion and $T_k$ a stopping time, with the stopped pieces independent, $0\le T_k<\infty$, and with th...
Do peaks of random labelings repel each other?
v1.3 research notesChoose uniformly a bijective labeling of the vertices of the $n\times n$ discrete square by $1,2,\ldots,n^2$, and call a vertex a peak when all adjace...
Martingale for practical purposes
v1.3 research notesGive a mathematically useful definition of a process being a 'martingale for practical purposes', so that failure means it is practical to find a stop...
Analytic toy model for a percolation-fragmentation congestion transition
v1.3 research notesFind a simple network-and-demand toy model in which the marginal satisfiability proportion $r(t)$ can be calculated analytically and exhibits the prop...
Universal compression of sparse labeled graphs
v1.3 research notesFor sparse $n$-vertex graphs of average degree $O(1)$ whose vertices have distinct $O(\log n)$-length labels over a finite alphabet, construct univers...
Mixing times for coagulation-fragmentation processes
v1.3 research notesObtain relaxation- and mixing-time bounds for reversible coagulation-fragmentation Markov chains on finite sets in terms of their model parameters....