Unsolved Problems

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GEO-013
Open

The Carathéodory Conjecture

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

L4
Geometry
456
31
GEO-014
Open

The Cartan-Hadamard Conjecture

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

L4
Geometry
523
39
GEO-015
Open

Chern's Affine Conjecture

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

L4
Geometry
398
27
GEO-016
Open

Chern's Conjecture for Hypersurfaces in Spheres

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

L4
Geometry
367
23
GEO-017
Open

The Closed Curve Problem

What are necessary and sufficient conditions for an integral curve defined by two periodic functions to be closed?...

L3
Geometry
289
19
GEO-018
Open

The Filling Area Conjecture

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

L4
Geometry
334
22
GEO-019
Open

The Hopf Conjectures

What is the relationship between curvature and Euler characteristic for even-dimensional Riemannian manifolds?...

L5
Geometry
567
43
GEO-020
Open

The Osserman Conjecture

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

L4
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 $n$?...

L4
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?...

L4
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?...

L4
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?...

L4
Geometry
445
31
GEO-025
Open

Kalai's $3^d$ Conjecture

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

L4
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?...

L4
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 $(n+1)^n/n!$?...

L4
Geometry
389
27
ALG-039
Open

The Cherlin-Zilber Conjecture

Is every simple group with a stable first-order theory an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field?...

L5
Algebra
412
29
ALG-040
Open

The Generalized Star Height Problem

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

L4
Algebra
334
23
NT-031
Open

Hilbert's Tenth Problem for Number Fields

For which number fields is there an algorithm to determine solvability of Diophantine equations?...

L5
Number Theory
523
39
ANA-006
Open

The Ibragimov-Iosifescu Conjecture

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

L4
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?...

L4
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?...

L4
Geometry
612
46
GEO-031
Open

Ulam's Packing Conjecture

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

L4
Geometry
445
32
GEO-032
Open

Sphere Packing in High Dimensions

What is the densest packing of unit spheres in dimensions other than 1, 2, 3, 8, and 24?...

L5
Geometry
734
58
ANA-008
Open

Lehmer's Conjecture

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

L4
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?...

L4
Analysis
456
33
COMB-010
Open

The Cap Set Problem

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

L4
Combinatorics
523
40
COMB-012
Open

The Sunflower Conjecture

Does every family of at least $c^k k!$ sets of size $k$ contain a sunflower of size 3, for some absolute constant $c$?...

L5
Combinatorics
612
48
COMB-013
Open

Ramsey Number $R(5,5)$

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

L4
Combinatorics
823
67
DYN-005
Open

The Birkhoff Conjecture

If a billiard table is strictly convex and integrable, is it necessarily an ellipse?...

L5
Analysis
489
36
NT-032
Open

Gauss Circle Problem

How far can the number of lattice points in a circle centered at the origin deviate from the area of the circle?...

L4
Number Theory
478
35
NT-033
Open

Grimm's Conjecture

Can each element of a set of consecutive composite numbers be assigned a distinct prime divisor?...

L4
Number Theory
412
29
NT-034
Open

Hall's Conjecture

For any $\varepsilon > 0$, is there a constant $c(\varepsilon)$ such that either $y^2 = x^3$ or $|y^2 - x^3| > c(\varepsilon) x^{1/2-\varepsilon}$?...

L4
Number Theory
445
33
NT-035
Open

Lehmer's Totient Problem

If Euler's totient function $\phi(n)$ divides $n-1$, must $n$ be prime?...

L4
Number Theory
523
41
NT-036
Open

Magic Square of Squares

Does there exist a 3×3 magic square composed entirely of distinct perfect squares?...

L4
Number Theory
589
47
NT-037
Open

Mahler's 3/2 Problem

Is there a real number $x$ such that the fractional parts of $x(3/2)^n$ are all less than $1/2$ for every positive integer $n$?...

L4
Number Theory
398
28
NT-038
Open

Newman's Conjecture

Does the partition function satisfy any arbitrary congruence infinitely often?...

L4
Number Theory
367
26
NT-039
Open

Scholz Conjecture

Is the shortest addition chain for $2^n - 1$ at most $n - 1$ plus the length of the shortest addition chain for $n$?...

L4
Number Theory
412
30
NT-041
Open

Infinitely Many Perfect Numbers

Are there infinitely many perfect numbers?...

L4
Number Theory
678
54
NT-043
Open

Quasiperfect Numbers

Do quasiperfect numbers exist?...

L4
Number Theory
398
28
NT-044
Open

Almost Perfect Numbers Beyond Powers of 2

Do any almost perfect numbers exist that are not powers of 2?...

L4
Number Theory
356
25
NT-045
Open

The Number of Idoneal Numbers

Are there exactly 65 idoneal numbers, or could there be 66 or 67?...

L4
Number Theory
334
24
NT-046
Open

Amicable Numbers of Opposite Parity

Do any pairs of amicable numbers exist where one is odd and one is even?...

L4
Number Theory
389
27
NT-047
Open

Infinitely Many Amicable Pairs

Are there infinitely many pairs of amicable numbers?...

L4
Number Theory
445
33
NT-048
Open

Infinitely Many Giuga Numbers

Are there infinitely many Giuga numbers?...

L4
Number Theory
367
26
NT-049
Open

Lychrel Numbers in Base 10

Do Lychrel numbers exist in base 10?...

L3
Number Theory
512
39
NT-050
Open

Odd Weird Numbers

Do any odd weird numbers exist?...

L4
Number Theory
378
27
NT-051
Open

Normality of Pi

Is $\pi$ a normal number in base 10?...

L5
Number Theory
823
68
NT-052
Open

Normality of Irrational Algebraic Numbers

Are all irrational algebraic numbers normal in every base?...

L5
Number Theory
567
45
NT-053
Open

Is 10 a Solitary Number?

Is 10 a solitary number (no other number shares its abundancy index)?...

L3
Number Theory
334
24
NT-055
Open

Erdős Conjecture on Arithmetic Progressions

If the sum of reciprocals of a set of positive integers diverges, does the set contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions?...

L5
Number Theory
534
42