Unsolved Problems

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ALG-008
Open

Andrews-Curtis Conjecture

Can every balanced presentation of the trivial group be transformed into a trivial presentation by a sequence of Nielsen transformations and conjugati...

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Algebra
212
19
ALG-009
Open

Bounded Burnside Problem

For which positive integers $m$ and $n$ is the free Burnside group $B(m,n)$ finite? In particular, is $B(2,5)$ finite?...

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Algebra
189
15
ALG-014
Open

McKay Conjecture

For a finite group $G$ and prime $p$, is the number of irreducible complex characters of $G$ whose degree is not divisible by $p$ equal to the corresp...

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Algebra
156
13
ALG-015
Open

Are All Groups Surjunctive?

Is every group surjunctive? That is, for any group $G$, if $\phi: A^G \to A^G$ is a cellular automaton that is injective, must it also be surjective?...

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Algebra
143
11
NT-016
Open

Catalan-Mersenne Conjecture

Are all Catalan-Mersenne numbers $C_n$ composite for $n > 4$? Here $C_0 = 2$ and $C_{n+1} = 2^{C_n} - 1$....

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Number Theory
287
24
GEO-002
Open

Mahler's Conjecture

Among all centrally symmetric convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^n$, does the cube (or cross-polytope) minimize the product of the body's volume and the vol...

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Geometry
245
21
GEO-003
Open

The Illumination Conjecture

Can every convex body in $n$-dimensional space be illuminated by at most $2^n$ point light sources?...

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Geometry
187
16
GEO-004
Open

Kakeya Needle Problem

What is the minimum area of a region in the plane in which a unit line segment can be continuously rotated through 360 degrees?...

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Geometry
312
27
COMB-003
Open

The Union-Closed Sets Conjecture

For any finite family of finite sets that is closed under taking unions, must there exist an element that belongs to at least half of the sets?...

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Combinatorics
334
28
DYN-001
Open

The Weinstein Conjecture

Does every Reeb vector field on a closed contact manifold have at least one periodic orbit?...

L4
276
23
TOP-003
Open

The Whitehead Conjecture

Is every aspherical closed manifold whose fundamental group has no non-trivial perfect normal subgroups a $K(\pi, 1)$ space?...

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234
20
GEO-006
Open

The Knaster Problem

Can a solid cube be completely covered by finitely many smaller homothetic cubes with ratio less than 1, such that the interiors are disjoint?...

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Geometry
189
16
ALG-016
Open

The Babai Conjecture on Graph Isomorphism

Can graph isomorphism be decided in quasi-polynomial time for all graphs?...

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Algebra
445
38
NT-023
Open

Pillai's Conjecture

For each positive integer $k$, does the equation $|2^m - 3^n| = k$ have only finitely many solutions in positive integers $m$ and $n$?...

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Number Theory
198
17
ALG-018
Open

Hilbert's Fifteenth Problem

Can Schubert calculus be given a rigorous foundation?...

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Algebra
245
21
GEO-008
Open

The Inscribed Square Problem

Does every simple closed curve in the plane contain four points that form the vertices of a square?...

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Geometry
456
39
ANA-005
Open

Sendov's Conjecture

If all zeros of a polynomial lie in the closed unit disk, does each zero have at least one critical point within unit distance from it?...

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Analysis
234
20
NT-027
Open

Firoozbakht's Conjecture

Is the sequence $p_n^{1/n}$ strictly decreasing, where $p_n$ is the $n$-th prime?...

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Number Theory
198
17
ALG-021
Open

The Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture

Is every piecewise-polynomial function $f: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ the maximum of finitely many minimums of finite collections of polynomials?...

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Algebra
178
15
GEO-010
Open

The Shephard's Problem

Can the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ be illuminated by fewer than $2^n$ directions?...

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Geometry
198
17
ALG-023
Open

The Andrews-Curtis Conjecture

Can every balanced presentation of the trivial group be transformed into a trivial presentation by a sequence of Nielsen transformations and conjugati...

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Algebra
412
28
ALG-025
Open

The Guralnick-Thompson Conjecture

What are the composition factors of finite groups appearing in genus-0 systems?...

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Algebra
298
19
ALG-026
Open

The Herzog-Schönheim Conjecture

If a finite system of left cosets of subgroups of a group $G$ partitions $G$, must some two subgroups have the same index?...

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Algebra
321
22
ALG-028
Open

The Isomorphism Problem for Coxeter Groups

Is there an algorithm to determine whether two Coxeter groups given by presentations are isomorphic?...

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Algebra
367
25
ALG-032
Open

The Surjunctivity Conjecture

Is every group surjunctive?...

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Algebra
389
27
ALG-035
Open

Dade's Conjecture

Is there a relationship between the numbers of irreducible characters in blocks of a finite group and its local subgroups?...

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Algebra
312
21
ALG-036
Open

The Demazure Conjecture

Can representations of semisimple algebraic groups be characterized over the integers?...

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Algebra
289
18
GEO-012
Open

The Spherical Bernstein Problem

What is the classification of complete minimal hypersurfaces in spheres of all dimensions?...

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Geometry
387
24
GEO-013
Open

The Carathéodory Conjecture

Does every convex, closed, twice-differentiable surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$ have at least two umbilical points?...

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Geometry
456
31
GEO-014
Open

The Cartan-Hadamard Conjecture

Does the isoperimetric inequality hold for Cartan-Hadamard manifolds?...

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Geometry
523
39
GEO-015
Open

Chern's Affine Conjecture

Does the Euler characteristic of a compact affine manifold vanish?...

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Geometry
398
27
GEO-016
Open

Chern's Conjecture for Hypersurfaces in Spheres

What minimal hypersurfaces in spheres have constant mean curvature?...

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Geometry
367
23
GEO-018
Open

The Filling Area Conjecture

Does a hemisphere have minimum area among shortcut-free surfaces with a given boundary length?...

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Geometry
334
22
GEO-020
Open

The Osserman Conjecture

Is every Osserman manifold either flat or locally isometric to a rank-one symmetric space?...

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Geometry
412
28
GEO-021
Open

Yau's Conjecture on First Eigenvalues

Is the first eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a minimal hypersurface in $S^{n+1}$ equal to $n$?...

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Geometry
478
34
GEO-022
Open

The Hadwiger Covering Conjecture

Can every $n$-dimensional convex body be covered by at most $2^n$ smaller homothetic copies?...

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Geometry
523
38
GEO-023
Open

The Happy Ending Problem

What is the minimum number of points in the plane needed to guarantee a convex $n$-gon?...

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Geometry
612
47
GEO-024
Open

The Heilbronn Triangle Problem

What is the largest minimum area of a triangle determined by $n$ points in a unit square?...

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Geometry
445
31
GEO-025
Open

Kalai's $3^d$ Conjecture

Does every centrally symmetric $d$-dimensional polytope have at least $3^d$ faces?...

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Geometry
378
26
GEO-026
Open

The Unit Distance Problem

What is the maximum number of unit distances determined by $n$ points in the plane?...

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Geometry
567
42
GEO-028
Open

Ehrhart's Volume Conjecture

Does a convex body in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with one interior lattice point at its center of mass have volume at most $(n+1)^n/n!$?...

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Geometry
389
27
ALG-040
Open

The Generalized Star Height Problem

Can all regular languages be expressed with generalized regular expressions of bounded star height?...

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Algebra
334
23
ANA-006
Open

The Ibragimov-Iosifescu Conjecture

Does the central limit theorem hold for all φ-mixing sequences?...

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Analysis
378
26
GEO-029
Open

Borsuk's Conjecture

Can every bounded set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ be partitioned into $n+1$ sets of smaller diameter?...

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Geometry
523
39
GEO-030
Open

The Kissing Number Problem

What is the maximum number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can touch a central unit sphere in $n$ dimensions?...

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Geometry
612
46
GEO-031
Open

Ulam's Packing Conjecture

Is the sphere the worst-packing convex solid?...

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Geometry
445
32
ANA-008
Open

Lehmer's Conjecture

Is there a constant $c > 1$ such that all non-cyclotomic polynomials have Mahler measure at least $c$?...

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Analysis
489
36
ANA-009
Open

Fuglede's Conjecture

Is a measurable set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ spectral if and only if it tiles by translation?...

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Analysis
456
33
COMB-010
Open

The Cap Set Problem

What is the maximum size of a cap set in $\mathbb{F}_3^n$?...

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Combinatorics
523
40
COMB-013
Open

Ramsey Number $R(5,5)$

What is the exact value of the Ramsey number $R(5,5)$?...

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Combinatorics
823
67