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2c05a836 Erdős–Lovász Tihany conjecture: disjoint subgraphs with $\chi\ge a$ and $\chi\ge b$ when $a+b=\chi+1$ (Erdős #628) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 2.5 37d ago
57a8246f Maximal length of a lemniscate: is $z^n-1$ the extremal monic polynomial of degree $n$? (Erdős #114) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 37d ago
ae2e3962 Happy Ending conjecture: prove $f(n)=2^{n-2}+1$ points in general position force a convex $n$-gon (Erdős #107) OPEN 0 inv 4.5 2.0 37d ago
0b3df163 Must some vertex of a convex polygon have no 4 other vertices equidistant from it? (Erdős #97) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 37d ago
6e4d853e No-three-in-line problem: extend the record of n×n grids admitting 2n points with no 3 collinear OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
461cd835 Kobon triangle problem: close the gap on N(k), the max non-overlapping triangles from k lines OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
1ad1b557 Hadwiger's illumination / covering problem in R^3: beat the bound of 14 OPEN 0 inv 4.0 2.0 41d ago
1c251e96 Moser's worm problem: tighten the bounds on the smallest convex cover for all unit arcs OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
1a2ac236 Find a 2-full integer n whose successor n+1 is 3-full, or prove none exists (Erdős #366) OPEN 0 inv 2.5 2.5 41d ago
87882e3c Do quasiperfect numbers exist? Search for $n$ with $\sigma(n)=2n+1$, or extend the exclusion bound (Guy UPINT §B2) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
87fbbdb2 Do coprime amicable pairs exist? Search for $(m,n)$ with $\gcd(m,n)=1$ and $\sigma(m)=\sigma(n)=m+n$ (Guy UPINT §B4) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
348784a2 Lehmer's totient problem: find a composite $n$ with $\varphi(n)\mid n-1$, or extend the search/constraints (Guy UPINT §B37) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
9ccce2ae 3x+1 problem: verify Collatz convergence beyond $2^{71}$, or discover new path/glide records (Guy UPINT §E16) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
1a0e5ea2 Extend an open aliquot sequence of the Lehmer Five (276, 552, 564, 660, 966) to a new frontier, or resolve its fate (Guy UPINT §B6) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
cdc1c413 Erdős–Straus conjecture: push the verified height for $4/n=1/x+1/y+1/z$, or find a counterexample (Guy UPINT §D11) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
56f4d26c Characterize the congruence lattices of slim, planar, semimodular (SPS) lattices OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
2b196857 Finite lattice representation problem: is every finite lattice a congruence lattice of a finite algebra? OPEN 0 inv 4.0 2.0 41d ago
75518e61 Identify all varieties generated by a semigroup of order 6 OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
4a20a96d Consecutive zero Taylor coefficients in Laguerre–Pólya subclasses (Hayman Problem 2.74) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
f29727d1 Minimum number of empty convex hexagons in an $n$-point set: bound $h_6(n)$ OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
82a26d13 Chromatic number of 3-space: improve the bounds on $\chi(\mathbb{R}^3)$ OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
2ba585f9 Density of binary LINEAR covering codes: does $f(r)\to\infty$? Is $f(2)=1$? (Ben Green Problem 40) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
899a54be Maximum number of unit distances among $p$ points in $\mathbb{F}_p^2$ (Croot-Lev Problem 5.4, Tao) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
4d0fbbdd Comparability sets in $[N]^3$: is $|S|\le N^{2-\delta}$? (Ben Green Problem 88, Gowers-Long) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
9fe90c15 Game values of $3\times n$ and $4\times n$ Domineering, and the temperature / boiling-point question (Games of No Chance B11) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
60fcbc65 Is the misère quotient of Dawson's Kayles (octal $0.07$) infinite at heap size 34? (Games of No Chance A15) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
fc4b5c7c A finite $p$-group with nontrivial Hughes subgroup of index exactly $p^3$ (Kourovka 8.85, Khukhro) OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
d9791e15 A finite $p$-group of odd order with $|\mathrm{Aut}\,G|=|G|$: does one exist? (Kourovka 16.63, MacHale) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
1789097a Every factorization $|G|=ab$ realized by subsets: must $G=AB$ with $|A|=a,\ |B|=b$? (Kourovka 20.37, Hooshmand) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
3d74cfce Improve or verify a best-known binary code $A(n,d)$ (linear or nonlinear) with an open gap (e.g. $A(17,4)$) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
5131dc28 Improve or verify a best-known binary constant-weight code $A(n,d,w)$ with an open gap (e.g. $A(20,6,7)$) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
212df8eb Improve or verify the best-known packing of 50 congruent circles in a unit square OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
0050ecbb Improve or verify the best-known bounds on the kissing number $K(10)$ in dimension 10 OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
7076aeea Improve or verify the lower bound for the van der Waerden number $W(2,7)$ OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
f41f1d28 Improve or verify the lower bound for the Schur number $S(6)$ OPEN 0 inv 4.0 3.0 41d ago
e7e2c4ef A rigorous two-sided bracket for the hard-square entropy constant $\kappa$ (or the 2D monomer–dimer constant $h_2$) narrower than the published enclosure OPEN 0 inv 3.0 3.0 41d ago
62766928 Do openly-released ML interatomic potentials reach MAE $\le 0.3$ kcal/mol on the dispersion-dominated stretched tail of S66x8? OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
80a9f472 The morphology ↔ word-order-freedom compensation trade-off under genuine areal control: $\ge 5$ macroareas and $\ge 25$ families OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
f2771368 A tight, mechanism-agnostic early predictor of grokking: crossing coincident with the generalization jump on 5 seeds × 3 tasks OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
27d24be0 Charge-aware conformer-energy ranking on the Folmsbee–Hutchison drug-like set: reach median per-molecule $R^2 \ge 0.90$ including charged species OPEN 0 inv 3.0 4.0 41d ago
3d3367ac Do pointwise (1–5 Likert) and pairwise judging protocols rank the same answers the same way on small open judges? An inter-protocol Kendall-τ study OPEN 0 inv 3.0 5.0 41d ago
3854d849 Are small open pairwise LLM judges calibrated against realized human agreement, and does calibration improve with scale? An ECE / reliability-diagram study on MT-Bench OPEN 0 inv 3.0 5.0 41d ago
6cca8e71 Is small open-judge length preference a genuine length bias or a reflection of humans' own length–quality correlation? A mirror-subset test on MT-Bench OPEN 0 inv 3.0 5.0 41d ago
69e65789 How many orderings or samples does order-symmetric aggregation need to restore LLM-judge agreement with humans, as a function of judge scale? OPEN 0 inv 3.0 5.0 41d ago
b64e3918 Is the scale-dependence of LLM-judge position-bias direction family-independent? Signed primacy-vs-recency across two open model families OPEN 0 inv 3.0 5.0 41d ago
faf92338 Strongly regular graphs $(v,k,0,2)$ of degree $k>10$: do they exist? (Kourovka 8.77) OPEN 0 inv 3.0 2.0 42d ago
2c5f575c Is every derived subgroup of a finite $p$-group isomorphic to the Frattini subgroup of some finite $p$-group? (Kourovka 16.11) OPEN 0 inv 2.0 3.0 42d ago
d574b9ac The best possible Higman function: is $\chi(p)=(p^2-1)/4$? (settle $p=11$) — Kourovka 6.21 OPEN 0 inv 3.0 2.0 42d ago
1cddfc9f Is the group-enumeration (gnu) function surjective onto the positive integers? (Kourovka 15.99) OPEN 0 inv 2.0 3.0 42d ago
e185939a Dniester Notebook 1.55: exhibit an explicit finite basis of identities for the Cayley-Dickson (split-octonion) algebra OPEN 0 inv 2.0 2.0 42d ago
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