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Mathematics
247 research topics · 1651 questions
Conjecture on the quantum cohomology ring of -equivalent algebraic varieties5 questions
Monodromy of the crepant resolution identification versus derived autoequivalences for type A surface singularities
Open for about 19 yearsForbes–Jinzenji conjecture: for all integers
Open for about 20 yearsQuantum flips after Lee–Lin–Wang: globalizing the quantum-cohomology embedding under simple flips, and the accompanying singularity, uniqueness, linearity, and Cayley-combinatorics questions
Open for about 6 yearsRuan–Wang K-equivalence conjecture for Gromov–Witten theory: all-genus invariance for ordinary flops, decomposition of K-equivalent maps, and global convergence of the quantum potential
Open for about 25 yearsDirected double-point degeneration: an algebraic-cobordism route to quantum-ring invariance under ordinary flops (Question 8.3.1 of Lee–Lin–Qu–Wang)
Open for about 12 years
A series of generalization patterns for an important congruence on semigroups5 questions
Open problems on quasi-absorbing elements in semigroups: order generation by quasi-primitive elements, semigroup-level duality, and Rees-congruence reduction
Open for about 2 yearsThe congruence lattice of NI(X) for the exceptional finite sets and
Open for about 19 yearsCongruences, embeddings, and automorphisms of the generalized bicyclic semigroups for arbitrary -closed families
Open for about 5 yearsAn intrinsic characterization of Condition (K) for inverse semigroups and their tight C*-algebras
Open for about 8 yearsDSC semigroups: which groups are DSC, and is the DSC class closed under direct products?
Open for about 1 year
Erdős's problem on covering systems with distinct moduli8 questions
Minimal least common multiple of a distinct covering system with given minimum modulus: the open values for
Open for about 7 yearsThe weight-function threshold in the Erdős covering problem: which multiplicative weights force a positive density of uncovered integers
Open for about 7 yearsSharp values of the k-th smallest modulus bound B(k) for covering systems with distinct moduli, and Selfridge's problem on avoiding the modulus 2 in the squarefree case
Open for about 45 yearsExplicit effective bounds for covering systems of the polynomial ring : making the minimum-degree constants of Li–Wang–Wang–Yi quantitative
Open for about 3 yearsNonexistence of distinct covering systems with all moduli in for (the Dalton–Jones interval problem)
Open for about 1 yearMinimum multiplicity of the repeated modulus 9 in covering systems with odd moduli: is , and is the residue arrangement realizable?
Open for about 1 yearA uniform constant-factor improvement on for covering systems with one repeated odd prime modulus (Question 5.3 of Harrington–Sun–Wong)
Open for about 5 yearsExistence of infinite exact distinct saturated covering systems with minimum modulus at least 5
Open for about 38 years
Erdős-Turán conjecture on reciprocal sums and divergent sequences6 questions
Graham's conjecture: sets of lattice points with divergent reciprocal-square sum must contain infinitely many axis-parallel squares
Open for about 29 yearsErdős's conjecture on arithmetic progressions (Jensen's zero-solution-set formulation): does every set of natural numbers with divergent reciprocal sum contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions?
Open for about 52 yearsErdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions: does every set of positive integers with divergent reciprocal sum contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions?
Open for about 51 yearsFiniteness and value of , the supremum of reciprocal sums of sets of integers with no 4-term arithmetic progression
Open for about 52 yearsErdős's reciprocal-sum conjecture for arithmetic progressions: the open cases
Open for about 86 yearsErdős's harmonic-set (divergent reciprocal sum) conjecture: must every set of natural numbers whose reciprocals sum to infinity contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions?
Open for about 52 years
The conjecture on commutative equivalence of codes to prefix codes8 questions
Cardinality control for prefix-free codes preserving weighted occurrence sums: Kraizberg's weak commutative-equivalence approximation
Open for less than 1 yearBounded cardinality discrepancy between a finite code and a weight-equivalent prefix-free code
Open for less than 1 yearComplete bayonet codes and finite maximal codes: the strong triangle conjecture beyond Hajós numbers and the realization problem
Open for about 3 yearsCompanion Hajós factorizations for finite maximal codes: extending De Felice's Ω(n)≤2 theorem, the existence of non-Hajós codes, and the Zhang–Shum pair correspondence
Open for about 4 yearsStrong triangle conjecture for finite maximal codes and the embeddability of Shor's counterexample
Open for about 45 yearsThe Schützenberger factorization conjecture for finite maximal codes and the associated finite-completion decision problems
Open for about 46 yearsCommutative regularity of Kleene closures of bounded semi-linear languages: extending Carpi–D'Alessandro's Theorem 1 beyond codes and the two-distinct-letters condition
Open for about 5 yearsDeciding embeddability of finite codes into finite maximal codes, and the open instance of Shor's counterexample code
Open for about 49 years
Snevily conjecture on Abelian groups of odd order4 questions
A purely combinatorial proof of Snevily's conjecture on transversals of Cayley addition tables of odd-order abelian groups
Open for about 16 yearsThe Kézdy–Snevily conjecture: for even and for odd (covering radius of sets of permutations in the Hamming permutation space)
Open for about 21 yearsThe all-orders classification of subsquares of group multiplication tables without transversals (Müyesser–Pokrovskiy Conjecture 7.1)
Open for about 27 yearsPower-saving error term for the count of additive triples of bijections of a finite abelian group (toroidal semiqueens / complete mappings)
Open for about 10 years
Conjecture on holomorphic bisectional curvature6 questions
Extending the sharp dimension-estimate rigidity for polynomial-growth holomorphic functions to nonnegative holomorphic sectional curvature
Open for less than 1 yearPositive orthogonal holomorphic bisectional curvature on compact complex manifolds: is the Hermitian Frankel property rigid beyond the conformally Kähler setting?
Open for about 11 yearsYau's uniformization conjecture for complete simply connected Kähler manifolds with negatively pinched sectional curvature
Open for about 49 yearsDoes nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature imply nonnegative isotropic curvature on Kähler manifolds of complex dimension at least three?
Open for about 18 yearsHolomorphic convexity and polynomial-growth holomorphic functions on complete Kähler manifolds with nonpositive bisectional curvature and Euclidean volume growth (Question 1.10 of Wu–Yang)
Open for about 1 yearConverse of the pseudoindex inequality for m-positive bisectional curvature on compact Kähler manifolds
Open for less than 1 year
Decision problem of finite codes having finite completions9 questions
Finite completions of codes within structured families: θ-invariant codes and strong alt-induced codes
Open for about 8 yearsDecidability of the inclusion problem for finite codes: deciding whether a finite code can be embedded in a finite maximal code
Open for about 49 yearsGood arrangements of the -components of finite maximal codes and Krasner factorizations of cyclic groups
Open for about 9 yearsThe embedding problem for the class of strong alt-induced codes: maximal extensions preserving regularity and finiteness
Open for about 8 yearsDecidability of the inclusion problem for finite codes: embedding a finite code into a finite maximal code
Open for about 49 yearsFinite completions of theta-invariant codes: which finite theta-invariant codes embed into a finite complete theta-invariant code?
Open for about 8 yearsRealizability of complete bayonet codes as slices of finite maximal codes
Open for about 3 yearsDoes Shor's bayonet code have a finite completion? The triangle conjecture for finite maximal codes
Open for about 37 yearsCompleting codes with bounded deciphering delay inside submonoids of the free monoid
Open for about 23 years
The Drinfeld–Vlăduţ bound on the number of points on curves over finite fields5 questions
Attainable spectra of Tsfasman–Vlăduţ invariants of towers of global fields: infinite supports, order- optimality over non-square finite fields, and minimal spectra
Open for about 14 yearsExact limit of the Bassa–Beelen–Nguyen Drinfeld modular tower over an elliptic-curve coordinate ring
Open for about 12 yearsImproving the lower bounds for the Ihara constants and (toward determining for nonsquare finite fields)
Open for about 41 yearsExplicit optimal Drinfeld-modular towers beyond the polynomial ring: the remaining degree-two principal ideals
Open for less than 1 yearClosed-form Serre-type arithmetic refinements of Weil–Oesterlé bounds of order
Open for about 1 year
Seifert's conjecture on the multiplicity of brake orbits5 questions
Multiplicity of orthogonal geodesic chords in ball-diffeomorphic Riemannian manifolds with boundary focal points
Open for about 10 yearsSeifert's conjecture on the multiplicity of brake orbits in potential wells
Open for about 78 yearsAt least n brake orbits for classical-type Hamiltonians: the generalized Seifert conjecture for disk-shaped potential wells
Open for about 78 yearsHypothesis-free multiplicity of orthogonal geodesic chords in strongly concave Riemannian disks, and generic multiplicity among smooth metrics
Open for about 78 yearsDispensability of the special-geodesic exclusion assumption in the multiplicity theorem for orthogonal geodesic chords in strongly concave Riemannian disks
Open for about 4 years
Two embedding problems of regular semigroups5 questions
Boone–Higman embeddings for semigroups: the word problem and finitely presented congruence-free monoids, with Maltcev's regular and bisimple embedding questions
Open for about 13 yearsFundamental bisimple embeddings for solid regular and locally inverse semigroups (the Uniform Bands problem)
Open for about 12 yearsProblem 6.1 of Dékány–Szendrei–Szittyai: classifying the varieties of completely simple semigroups for which every E-solid locally inverse extension embeds into a λ-semidirect product
Open for about 8 yearsExplicit semiband embedding for semigroups whose regular D-classes are aperiodic semigroups
Open for about 14 yearsThe Boone–Higman programme for semigroups: embedding finitely presented semigroups into finitely presented congruence-free, bisimple, and regular monoids
Open for about 13 years
Sullivan conjecture on smooth complex complete intersections6 questions
Diffeomorphism classification of smooth weighted complete intersections beyond the odd pairwise-coprime regime
Open for about 14 yearsThe Sullivan Conjecture for complex projective complete intersections of dimension at least five: diffeomorphism classification beyond the homeomorphism theorem of Fang and Wang
Open for about 56 yearsInertia groups of non-spin 4-dimensional complete intersections (Crowley–Nagy Conjecture 1.15)
Open for about 29 yearsClassification of smooth complete intersections by total degree, Pontrjagin classes, and Euler characteristic in complex dimension at least 8
Open for about 44 yearsThe Sullivan conjecture for complete intersections: diffeomorphism classification in complex dimension at least 5
Open for about 49 yearsThe Sullivan Conjecture for complete intersections of complex dimension at least 8
Open for about 44 years
Generalized metric space problem4 questions
Existence and uniqueness of φ-fixed circles and φ-fixed discs for self-mappings on 𝔘-metric spaces (Özgür–Taş open problem)
Open for about 5 yearsAre the shortest-Hamiltonian-path, smallest-enclosing-ball, and entrywise matrix-norm functionals -metrics of order (for , )?
Open for about 8 yearsExistence and homeomorphic classification of -equidistant metric continua (Popvassilev's Problem 5.2 and Conjecture 5.1)
Open for about 18 yearsThe open problems of Gaba-Agyingi-Leko on Chatterjea-type fixed point theory in partial b-metric spaces: sharp coefficient regime, T-stability, the P property, partial ultra-metric metrization, and the theta-phi-Chatterjea program
Open for about 7 years
Two conjectures concerning generalized tilting modules8 questions
Submodule-closure of higher Ext-images over noetherian rings: Auslander's question for
Open for about 20 yearsFiniteness of injective dimension for (quasi-)Gorenstein generalized tilting modules over Artin algebras (Huang's Conjecture 4.7)
Open for about 20 yearsTensorly faithful Wakamatsu tilting modules: classifying rings that force tensorly faithfulness and conditions weaker than the generalized Auslander-Reiten conjecture implying the Wakamatsu tilting conjecture
Open for about 2 yearsWakamatsu Tilting Conjecture and Huang's Conjecture 4.7: finiteness and symmetry of the injective dimensions of generalized tilting modules over Artin algebras
Open for about 22 yearsThe Wakamatsu tilting conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension a classical tilting module?
Open for about 19 yearsThe Wakamatsu Tilting Conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension a tilting module?
Open for about 19 yearsThe Wakamatsu Tilting Conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension over an Artin algebra tilting?
Open for about 19 yearsWhen does the -torsionfree class equal the generalized Gorenstein class for a Wakamatsu tilting bimodule?
Open for about 12 years
Generalized Smale conjecture4 questions
Long-time asymptotics of singular Ricci flow on the remaining non-flat Thurston geometries and a uniform Ricci-flow proof of the generalized Smale conjecture
Open for about 11 yearsUniqueness of embedded minimal surfaces of genus 2 in round spherical space forms of Heegaard genus 2 (Ketover–Liokumovich Conjecture 1.5)
Open for about 2 yearsCohomology of for connected sums of lens spaces beyond the generic non-diffeomorphic case
Open for about 1 yearUnboundedness of the Euler class for diffeomorphism groups of Seifert-fibered 3-manifolds (smooth-category realization of Mann's construction)
Open for about 8 years
Hartshorne conjecture10 questions
Twisted symmetric differential vanishing for smooth subvarieties of projective space in the Hartshorne complete-intersection regime
Open for about 3 yearsThe Barth–Ionescu conjecture: are smooth projective varieties of degree less than their dimension complete intersections?
Open for about 14 yearsHartshorne's codimension-two complete intersection conjecture and its rank-two bundle splitting form
Open for about 51 yearsHartshorne's conjecture on the Chow groups of hypersurfaces: is for ?
Open for about 52 yearsRational smoothability of algebraic cycle classes: is generated by classes of smooth subvarieties?
Open for about 2 yearsIs the smooth rational quartic curve in a set-theoretic complete intersection?
Open for about 64 yearsRational-curve determination of the nef-cone slope of rank-two vector bundles on Fano manifolds (the question of Muñoz–Occhetta–Solá Conde)
Open for about 15 yearsVoisin's conjecture: is the class of a very moving subvariety big?
Open for about 18 yearsExistence of a smooth quadratic non-complete-intersection 11-fold in of Fano index 8: the remaining case of Watanabe's classification of quadratic varieties with
Open for about 2 yearsHartshorne's conjecture: are smooth projective varieties of small codimension complete intersections?
Open for about 51 years
Invariant tori near equilibrium points of Hamiltonian systems7 questions
Optimality and scope of generic double-exponential effective stability at elliptic equilibria and normally elliptic tori of analytic Hamiltonians (Questions 1-3 of Bounemoura-Fayad-Niederman, 2020)
Open for about 11 yearsKAM-stability of elliptic equilibria of real-analytic Hamiltonians: Herman's conjecture beyond two degrees of freedom, and analytic examples that are neither KAM-stable nor Lyapunov unstable
Open for about 28 yearsHerman's conjecture on KAM-stability of analytic Diophantine elliptic equilibria and invariant tori, and the reality of KAM-tori in the degenerate Birkhoff-normal-form regime (open for d >= 3)
Open for about 28 yearsLyapunov-unstable elliptic equilibria of real-analytic Hamiltonians in the regimes left open: two degrees of freedom, Diophantine three degrees of freedom, and convergent Birkhoff normal form
Open for about 7 yearsNonlinear stability of the triangular points in the circular spatial restricted three-body problem at exceptional frequency arithmetic: Liouville frequency vectors, Pythagorean mass ratios, and rigorous steepness verification
Open for about 28 yearsLyapunov-unstable elliptic equilibria with convergent Birkhoff normal form for real-analytic Hamiltonians
Open for about 8 yearsOpen questions on the effective stability of generic real-analytic elliptic equilibrium points: necessity of the stably-steep Birkhoff-jet hypothesis, sharpness of doubly exponential estimates, and extension to normally elliptic invariant tori
Open for about 11 years
Hunt hypothesis and Getoor conjecture8 questions
Does Hunt's hypothesis (H) hold for the lacunary pure-jump subordinators of Hu–Sun–Zhang?
Open for about 13 yearsHunt's Hypothesis (H) for Pure Jump Lévy Processes and Pure Jump Subordinators
Open for about 7 yearsJoint continuity of measure-indexed continuous additive functionals and Getoor's conjecture on Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes
Open for about 40 yearsIs Hunt's Hypothesis (H) Preserved under the Sum of Two Independent Lévy Processes?
Open for about 12 yearsPolarity transfer from intrinsic Hausdorff measure in balayage spaces: extending the criteria for polar sets beyond hypotheses (*) and (iv')
Open for about 8 yearsGetoor's conjecture: characterize Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes in terms of the Lévy–Khintchine triplet
Open for about 40 yearsIs Hunt's hypothesis (H) stable under the sum of two independent Lévy processes?
Open for about 11 yearsGetoor's conjecture: Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes
Open for about 56 years
Hopf conjecture3 questions
The Chern–Hopf sign conjecture: sign of the Euler characteristic of closed manifolds of nonpositive or negative sectional curvature
Open for about 70 yearsSymmetry-rank thresholds for the Hopf conjecture under positive intermediate Ricci curvature: existence of a bound for
Open for about 1 yearThe Hopf conjecture: do even-dimensional manifolds of positive sectional curvature have positive Euler characteristic?
Open for about 94 years
Hopf problem4 questions
Torus-symmetry thresholds for the Hopf conjecture under positive -th intermediate Ricci curvature with
Open for about 1 yearHopf conjecture for positively curved manifolds with discrete abelian symmetry: the residual regimes of the Su–Wang theorem
Open for about 18 yearsSharp Weyl-curvature thresholds for curvature-operator positivity and the Hopf conjecture: the open questions left by Huang–Wang (arXiv:2507.15237)
Open for about 1 yearThe and Periodicity Conjectures: extending Adams's Hopf invariant one theorem from singly generated to periodic cohomology
Open for about 14 years
Certifying global optimality using sums of squares of rational polynomials5 questions
Does Putinar's Positivstellensatz descend to Archimedean subfields of the real numbers?
Open for about 16 yearsExact-arithmetic construction and facial decomposition of pseudo-moment certificates for positive non-SOS forms
Open for about 1 yearProvable guarantees and complexity bounds for exact rational sum-of-squares certification from floating-point computations
Open for about 18 yearsDescent of nonnegativity certificates to rational coefficients: finite generation of as a preordering of for specific compact intervals with algebraic boundary, and archimedeanity of rational quadratic modules
Open for about 16 yearsArchimedean descent for finitely generated quadratic modules from to
Open for about 16 years
Minimal tower problem7 questions
Pseudointersection and tower numbers of topological Ramsey spaces: the Dobrinen–Navarro Flores questions on , , and values outside
Bice's Question 7.7: is it consistent with ZFC that no tower of subsets of omega remains a tower of projections in the Calkin algebra?
Hechler's tower and mad-family forcings at uncountable cardinals: equivalence, cross-addition, and the almost disjointness number
Generalized tower numbers at uncountable cardinals: the exact consistency strength of and the -depth equality
Is the auxiliary cardinal equal to ? Optimal tower-refinement of filter-bases after
Does hold for every uncountable regular cardinal ? (the higher analogue of Malliaris–Shelah's )
Towers of singular order type in pseudo-tree algebras: extending Monk's regular-cardinal characterization
Problem of commutation between tight closure and localization8 questions
The (LC) conjecture: uniform linear annihilation of the local cohomology of Frobenius powers, and the relation between (LC) and (LC*)
Open for about 26 yearsEquality of the finitistic and full tight-closure annihilators in -pure local rings
Open for about 36 yearsAscent of F-coherence: polynomial rings, smooth base change, and lifting from hypersurface quotients
Open for about 17 yearsPrincipal localization of tight closure and the existence of its failure in characteristic
Open for about 18 yearsDoes tight closure commute with localization at a single element?
Open for about 18 yearsSingle-element localization of tight closure and coherence of sheafified tight closure
Open for about 38 yearsThe (LC) and (LC*) conjectures: uniform linear bounds for saturating the Frobenius powers of homogeneous ideals
Open for about 26 yearsOpenness of splinter loci for arbitrary excellent schemes: the mixed-characteristic and general prime-characteristic cases
Open for about 5 years
Closed geodesic conjecture on compact manifolds7 questions
The closed geodesics conjecture for compact rank-one symmetric spaces: does every Riemannian metric on (), , , or the Cayley plane carry infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics?
Open for about 50 yearsThe closed geodesics conjecture: infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics on every closed Riemannian manifold
Open for about 75 yearsFinitely presented almost cyclic groups (Kourovka Notebook Problem 8.8b) and the second closed geodesic on closed -manifolds
Open for about 44 yearsInfinitely many closed geodesics on every compact Riemannian and reversible Finsler manifold (Long's Conjectures 1 and 3)
Open for about 57 yearsDuan–Long–Wang conjecture on the dichotomy of the number of prime closed geodesics on compact simply-connected Finsler manifolds with rational cohomology
Open for about 10 yearsThe Katok–Anosov conjecture: sharp multiplicity of closed geodesics on Finsler spheres
Open for about 52 yearsInfinitely many closed geodesics on closed Riemannian manifolds: the surviving compact rank-one symmetric space cohomology and generic non-abelian fundamental group regimes
Open for about 57 years
Estimation of classical Ramsey functions1 questions
Finiteness problem of associated prime ideals of local cohomology modules7 questions
Descent of associated-prime and Bass-number finiteness of local cohomology along cyclically pure ring extensions
Open for about 10 yearsThe remaining cases of Huneke's associated-primes conjecture in dimensions five and six: non-principal height-one ideals in factorial local rings and the second local cohomology module over six-dimensional regular rings
Open for about 36 yearsDoes finiteness of associated primes of imply finiteness of associated primes of for complete-intersection ideals in LC-finite regular rings?
Open for about 7 yearsOpen questions from the generalized Hartshorne problem: -weak cofiniteness of the generalized local cohomology modules
Open for about 3 yearsHochster's question on finiteness of closed-fiber-supported associated primes of local cohomology for flat extensions with regular closed fiber
Open for about 13 yearsCofiniteness and associated-prime finiteness of generalized local cohomology modules: the open boundary beyond dimension two
Open for about 56 yearsFiniteness of associated primes of local cohomology in dimension four: the Robbins hypersurface family and the non-local three-dimensional maximal-ideal question
Open for about 34 years
Topological similarity problem of matrices5 questions
Topological conjugacy of periodic linear maps: the unresolved mixed-order cyclic cases of the nonlinear similarity classification
Open for about 53 yearsComplete classification of topologically skew-conjugate projective flows of linear flows on vector bundles
Open for about 19 yearsTopological conjugacy of linear endomorphisms: the Kuiper–Robbin classification problem, its root-of-unity core, and discrete-time real projective transformations
Open for about 53 yearsComplete topological () conjugacy classification of linear operators on finite-dimensional spaces
Open for about 53 yearsTopological similarity of nonsingular linear operators with root-of-unity eigenvalues: the missing case for the topological classification of matrix pencils
Open for about 53 years
Kaplansky's sixth conjecture5 questions
Kaplansky's sixth conjecture: must the dimension of every irreducible representation of a finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebra divide the dimension of the algebra?
Open for about 51 yearsArithmetic nature of the basic invariants of semisimple Hopf algebras: algebraic integrality and cyclotomicity
Open for about 11 yearsKaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius-type divisibility for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras
Open for about 51 yearsKaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius divisibility of irreducible module dimensions for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras
Open for about 51 yearsKaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius divisibility for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras
Open for about 51 years
Cayley graphs and related problems7 questions
Mutual characterization of Cayley incidence graphs and Cayley graphs (Questions 10.1–10.3 of Árnadóttir–Gordeev–Lato–Randrianarisoa–Vermant, 2024)
Open for about 1 yearFixed-valency GRR density: is the proportion of -valent Cayley graphs that are graphical regular representations tending to 1?
Open for less than 1 yearWell-quasi-ordering countable Cayley graphs under the minor relation and its refinements (Conjecture 5.1 and Question 5.2 of 'A full Halin grid theorem')
Open for about 2 yearsIs every connected bicirculant, apart from and the generalized Petersen graphs with , hamiltonian? (Bonvicini–Pisanski–Žitnik's bicirculant hamiltonicity conjecture)
Open for about 1 yearCantor spectra and torsion-free multi-band spectra of Cayley graphs: two open existence questions for adjacency operators of groups
Open for about 8 yearsAlon's Ramsey Cayley conjecture for the small-characteristic vector spaces and , and the associated subspace-coloring problem
Open for about 31 yearsDoes every connected Cayley graph on a finite group have a Hamiltonian cycle? (The Cayley graph Hamiltonicity conjecture)
Open for about 67 years
Cells of Coxeter groups7 questions
Lusztig's conjectures P1–P15 for Hecke algebras of Coxeter groups with arbitrary positive weight functions
Open for about 24 yearsAn effective, algorithmic description of Kazhdan–Lusztig cells in infinite Coxeter groups
Open for about 15 yearsThe bound of -folded alcove path representations and Lusztig's -function (Conjectures 6.14-6.16 of Guilhot-Little-Parkinson)
Open for about 3 yearsCoincidence of Calogero–Moser and Kazhdan–Lusztig cells for finite Coxeter groups: Gaudin spectral simplicity, intrinsic two-sided cells, and the general coincidence conjecture beyond type A and the dihedral equal-parameter case
Open for about 14 yearsThe Bonnafé–Rouquier conjecture: equality of Calogero–Moser cells and Kazhdan–Lusztig cells for finite Coxeter groups beyond type A and rank two
Open for about 14 yearsCharacterising Kazhdan–Lusztig left cells by two-sided cells and a generalised tau-invariant with unequal parameters (Bonnafé–Geck, Conjecture 7.5)
Open for about 12 yearsSemicontinuity of Kazhdan–Lusztig cells with unequal parameters: Bonnafé's Conjectures A, A′, A″ and B
Open for about 18 years
Existence of large sets of Kirkman triple systems10 questions
Existence of Steiner quadruple systems with minimum colorable derived designs: smallest unknown orders and auxiliary candelabra designs for infinite families
Open for about 1 yearExistence of large sets of Kirkman triple systems of orders 375 and 399 (the two remaining prime-power exceptions below 400)
Open for about 9 yearsCompleting the existence spectrum of overlarge sets of Kirkman triple systems: the residual OLKF(6^k) and 3-OLGKS(6^{k-1},4) checklist of Yuan and Kang
Open for about 17 yearsExistence of large sets of Kirkman triple systems of orders 57 and 87: the smallest open cases of the LKTS existence problem
Open for about 176 yearsThe existence spectrum of overlarge sets of Kirkman triple systems with two special points (OLKTS)
Open for about 2 yearsThe existence spectrum of large sets of Kirkman triple systems (Sylvester's problem)
Open for about 176 yearsExistence spectrum of large sets of Kirkman triple systems
Open for about 176 yearsLarge sets of Kirkman triple systems: the twelve remaining orders below 400
Open for about 176 yearsBase-case spectrum of the Wang–Shi lifting for large sets of Kirkman triple systems: existence of LKTS(q+2) for prime powers q ≡ 1 (mod 6), and canonicity of the lifted large set
Open for about 13 yearsExistence spectrum of overlarge sets of Kirkman triple systems (OLKTS(v))
Open for about 17 years
Transversal problem of Latin squares8 questions
Multilinear decay for the Latin squares of random Steiner triple systems
Open for about 3 yearsSharp transversal deficit in equi--squares: does every equi--square have a transversal of size at least ?
Open for about 1 yearPinned entries in latin square transversals: extremal bounds, odd-order existence, and coincidence without pinning
Open for about 1 yearRainbow directed cycles and paths of length at least in proper arc-colourings of the complete bidirected graph
Open for about 51 yearsLatin squares with extreme transversal intersection structure: pairwise-intersecting transversals with no pinned entry, and dominant transversals
Open for less than 1 yearThe maximum number of transversals in -dimensional Latin hypercubes at every order (Glebov–Luria conjecture)
Open for about 11 yearsDeterministic polynomial-time construction of near-full transversals in equi--squares
Open for about 51 yearsRyser's conjecture: full transversals in Latin squares of odd order
Open for about 59 years
The Ramras problem6 questions
Path and cycle decompositions of the hypercube: the divisibility characterization (Erde's conjecture) and fundamental-set realization of Ramras
Open for about 29 yearsDivisibility of hypercubes by paths and cycles of prescribed length, and fundamental decompositions (the Mollard–Ramras questions)
Open for about 14 yearsInitial growth of the Betti sequence of the canonical module: when is , and is determined by the preceding Betti numbers?
Open for about 20 yearsDecomposing the even hypercube into -cycles in the unresolved window of the regime
Open for about 8 yearsRamras' problem: when is every finitely generated reflexive module over a commutative noetherian local ring free?
Open for about 54 yearsRamras' problem: characterize the commutative noetherian local rings over which every finitely generated reflexive module is free
Open for about 55 years
Langlands Program9 questions
Are Farmer–Pitale–Ryan–Schmidt's tempered balanced analytic -functions automorphic? The Selberg–Langlands question
Open for about 37 yearsGenericity of ABV-packets for general -adic reductive groups and Vogan's conjecture identifying ABV-packets with Arthur packets beyond tempered parameters
Open for about 34 yearsThe enhanced Shahidi conjecture for general quasi-split reductive groups over non-Archimedean local fields
Open for about 15 yearsStrong functorial lift (- and -factor compatibility) and full Ramanujan conjecture for the quasi-split non-split even orthogonal group over function fields
Open for about 4 yearsBernstein's modified local Langlands correspondence (LLC-prime): extension to all irreducible smooth representations, the role of the two-fold cover , and the analytic theory of the attached -functions
Open for about 6 yearsBeraldo's conjecture: the action of on
Open for about 9 yearsComponent exhaustion and Hecke eigensheaves for the restricted geometric Langlands correspondence in positive characteristic
Open for about 5 yearsThe Fontaine–Mazur conjecture for irreducible geometric Galois representations of dimension greater than 2
Open for about 31 yearsTemperedness of locally generic cuspidal automorphic representations: the global-to-local A-packet, rigidity, and local-global genericity conjectures underlying Shahidi's conditional Ramanujan theorem
Open for about 16 years
Gauss's conjecture on real quadratic fields of class number one8 questions
The real-quadratic Rabinowitsch problem at the two-prime-divisor level: determine all for which has at most two distinct prime divisors for every admissible even
Open for less than 1 yearCaliber number 2 for real quadratic fields with radicand : completing the Jun–Lee classification
Open for about 15 yearsNon-trivial plus parts of cyclotomic class numbers for continued-fraction families with
Open for about 4 yearsGauss's class number one problem for real quadratic fields: infinitude and effective determination of all real quadratic fields with class number one
Open for about 225 yearsGauss's class number one problem for real quadratic fields and the derived çark-surface program: Kobayashi hyperbolicity, Lang-type finiteness, and non-maximal orders
Open for about 225 yearsGauss's conjecture: infinitely many real quadratic fields of class number one
Open for about 225 yearsUnconditional completion of the class number one problem for extended Richaud–Degert type real quadratic fields
Open for about 36 yearsUnconditional 2-stage Euclideanity of real quadratic fields of class number one
Open for about 51 years
Discrete logarithm solving problems6 questions
Rigorous complexity of index calculus for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem over fixed small-degree extension fields
Open for about 17 yearsTight generic quantum and hybrid quantum-classical complexity of the discrete logarithm problem: constant factors, interleaved hybrid tradeoffs, and Shoup-style generic group models
Open for about 3 yearsUnconditional quantum generic ring model lower bounds for order finding and integer factoring
Open for about 2 yearsExistence of degree-two polynomial models for the quasi-polynomial discrete logarithm algorithm in finite fields of fixed characteristic
Open for about 11 yearsDegree of regularity of Weil-descent systems from Semaev summation polynomials: does ?
Open for about 13 yearsLogarithmic universality bounds for polynomial field representations in small-characteristic discrete logarithm algorithms (Micheli's Conjectures 1.1 and 1.2)
Open for about 9 years