Mathematics Problem Archive
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?...
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...
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...
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...
Stationary distributions in higher dimensions
v1.3 research notesOn $\mathbb{Z}^2$, take nearest-neighbor jump probabilities $p_1,q_1,p_2,q_2$ in directions $\pm e_1,\pm e_2$, with $p_1>q_1$ and $p_2>q_2$. If the an...
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....
Low-density lineage limit of coalescing branching random walk
v1.3 research notesFor the two stationary branching-coalescing models on $\mathbb{Z}^3$ described by Aldous, prove that as particle intensity tends to zero the suitably ...
Constrained Ising storage model on a time-varying graph
v1.3 research notesStudy the constrained Ising storage model described on the page when the underlying graph itself changes in time....
Constant-factor online scheduling of subadditive batches
v1.3 research notesTasks arrive as a rate-one Poisson process and have types in $[0,1]$; batch processing time $S$ is monotone and strictly subadditive and type $a$ incu...
Relaxation time of Metropolis chains on Cayley graphs
v1.3 research notesFor the Metropolis chain on a finite Cayley graph with stationary law $\mu(p)$ obtained by stopping random walk at a geometric time, analyze its relax...
Spectral gap of a Bayesian graph Laplacian
v1.3 research notesFor the posterior random weighted graphs $G(t)$ defined from independent Poisson edge counts and flat priors, study the process $\operatorname{gap}(G(...
Sharp phase transition for SIS epidemics on general networks
v1.3 research notesFor sequences of finite weighted networks with vertex recovery rates and stationary SIS infection counts $X^{(n)}_{\theta,\varepsilon}$ satisfying the...
Shortest routes in random proximity networks
v1.3 research notesFor random proximity graphs on a planar Poisson point process, determine rigorous orders of magnitude for the transversal deviation $T_r$ of a shortes...
Mixing of branch rotation and triangulation chains
v1.3 research notesFor both the diagonal-flip chain on triangulations of the regular $n$-gon and the branch-rotation chain on $n$-cladograms, prove that the relaxation t...
Random Eulerian excursion dichotomy on high-dimensional tori
v1.3 research notesOn the bidirected torus $\mathbb{Z}_N^d$ with fixed $d\ge3$, let $b^{(N)},t^{(N)},m^{(N)}$ count excursions of a uniform Eulerian circuit longer than ...
Second-longest Eulerian excursion on the two-dimensional torus
v1.3 research notesFor a uniform Eulerian circuit on the bidirected two-dimensional torus, does $\log L_2^{(N)}/\log N$ converge in distribution to a random variable wit...
Excursion counts in a random Eulerian circuit on a complete graph
v1.3 research notesOn the bidirected complete $n$-vertex graph, is the expected number of length-$i$ excursions in a uniform Eulerian circuit asymptotic to $e^{-i/n}$?...
Shortest Eulerian excursion on the Hamming cube
v1.3 research notesFor a uniform Eulerian circuit on the bidirected Hamming cube $\{0,1\}^d$, determine the asymptotic behavior or distribution of the shortest excursion...
Eulerian-circuit continuum limits and SLE
v1.3 research notesIs there a relation between space-filling $\operatorname{SLE}_\kappa$ for $\kappa>8$ and the conjectural continuum limit of uniform Eulerian circuits ...
Stretch-length exponent in spatial networks
v1.3 research notesImprove the explicit upper and lower bounds for the minimum network length functions $\Psi^{ave}(s)$ and $\Psi^{worst}(s)$, and prove whether there is...
Largest common subcladogram exponents
v1.3 research notesFor two independent random $n$-cladograms, under both the uniform and coalescent distributions, prove $\mathbb{E}C_n=n^{\gamma+o(1)}$ for respective c...
Largest common suborder of two random two-dimensional orders
v1.3 research notesFor two independent coordinatewise partial orders generated by uniform points in the unit square, prove $\mathbb{E}C_n\sim c n^{1/3}$ and establish th...
Percolation criteria for merging planar empires
v1.3 research notesFor continuous-time processes that merge adjacent polygonal planar regions $A,B$ at a geometry-dependent rate $r(A,B)$, give sufficient conditions on ...
Percolation of planar empires at unit merger rate
v1.3 research notesWhen every adjacent pair of planar empires merges at rate $r(A,B)=1$, does percolation occur?...
Growth exponents in the balanced city-growth regime
v1.3 research notesIn the balanced regime $0<\alpha<1$ and $\beta>2\alpha$, prove that the upper and lower growth exponents for influence and city population all equal $...
Largest-city growth at alpha=1
v1.3 research notesIf $\alpha=1$ and $\beta>2$, prove $N_{(1)}(t)=t(\log t)^{1-2/\beta+o(1)}$ almost surely....
Stability dichotomy for the associated city dynamical system
v1.3 research notesFor the associated influence-cell dynamical system in general position with positive initial weights, prove that one weight tends to $1$ if $\alpha>1$...
Feasible statistic triples for SIRSNs
v1.3 research notesDetermine the set of possible triples $(\Delta=\mathbb{E}D_1,\ell,p(1))$ over all scale-invariant random spatial networks....