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247 research topics · 1651 questions

Conjecture on the quantum cohomology ring of KK-equivalent algebraic varieties5 questions
  1. Monodromy of the crepant resolution identification versus derived autoequivalences for type A surface singularities

    Open for about 19 years
  2. Forbes–Jinzenji conjecture: QH∗(P(O⊕O(k)⊕O(−2−k)))≅QH∗(P(O⊕O(−1)⊕O(−1)))QH^*(\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}\oplus\mathcal{O}(k)\oplus\mathcal{O}(-2-k)))\cong QH^*(\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}\oplus\mathcal{O}(-1)\oplus\mathcal{O}(-1))) for all integers kk

    Open for about 20 years
  3. Quantum 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 years
  4. Ruan–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 years
  5. Directed 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
  1. 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 years
  2. The congruence lattice of NI(X) for the exceptional finite sets ∣X∣=3|X|=3 and ∣X∣=5|X|=5

    Open for about 19 years
  3. Congruences, embeddings, and automorphisms of the generalized bicyclic semigroups BωFB_\omega^{\mathscr{F}} for arbitrary ω\omega-closed families F\mathscr{F}

    Open for about 5 years
  4. An intrinsic characterization of Condition (K) for inverse semigroups and their tight C*-algebras

    Open for about 8 years
  5. DSC 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
  1. Minimal least common multiple of a distinct covering system with given minimum modulus: the open values Lmin⁡(m)L_{\min}(m) for m≥8m\geq 8

    Open for about 7 years
  2. The weight-function threshold in the Erdős covering problem: which multiplicative weights force a positive density of uncovered integers

    Open for about 7 years
  3. Sharp 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 years
  4. Explicit effective bounds for covering systems of the polynomial ring Fq[x]\mathbb{F}_q[x]: making the minimum-degree constants of Li–Wang–Wang–Yi quantitative

    Open for about 3 years
  5. Nonexistence of distinct covering systems with all moduli in [n,12n][n,12n] for n≥4n \geq 4 (the Dalton–Jones interval problem)

    Open for about 1 year
  6. Minimum multiplicity of the repeated modulus 9 in covering systems with odd moduli: is t9≤2t_9\le 2, and is the residue arrangement {4,5,r}(mod9)\{4,5,r\}\pmod 9 realizable?

    Open for about 1 year
  7. A uniform constant-factor improvement on tp≤p−ct_p \le p-c for covering systems with one repeated odd prime modulus (Question 5.3 of Harrington–Sun–Wong)

    Open for about 5 years
  8. Existence 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
  1. Graham's conjecture: sets of lattice points with divergent reciprocal-square sum must contain infinitely many axis-parallel squares

    Open for about 29 years
  2. Erdős'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 years
  3. Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions: does every set of positive integers with divergent reciprocal sum contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions?

    Open for about 51 years
  4. Finiteness and value of M4M_4, the supremum of reciprocal sums of sets of integers with no 4-term arithmetic progression

    Open for about 52 years
  5. Erdős's reciprocal-sum conjecture for arithmetic progressions: the open cases k≥4k \ge 4

    Open for about 86 years
  6. Erdős'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
  1. Cardinality control for prefix-free codes preserving weighted occurrence sums: Kraizberg's weak commutative-equivalence approximation

    Open for less than 1 year
  2. Bounded cardinality discrepancy between a finite code and a weight-equivalent prefix-free code

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. Complete bayonet codes and finite maximal codes: the strong triangle conjecture beyond Hajós numbers and the realization problem

    Open for about 3 years
  4. Companion 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 years
  5. Strong triangle conjecture for finite maximal codes and the embeddability of Shor's counterexample

    Open for about 45 years
  6. The Schützenberger factorization conjecture for finite maximal codes and the associated finite-completion decision problems

    Open for about 46 years
  7. Commutative 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 years
  8. Deciding 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
  1. A purely combinatorial proof of Snevily's conjecture on transversals of Cayley addition tables of odd-order abelian groups

    Open for about 16 years
  2. The Kézdy–Snevily conjecture: f(n,2)=nf(n,2)=n for even nn and f(n,2)>nf(n,2)>n for odd nn (covering radius of sets of permutations in the Hamming permutation space)

    Open for about 21 years
  3. The all-orders classification of subsquares of group multiplication tables without transversals (Müyesser–Pokrovskiy Conjecture 7.1)

    Open for about 27 years
  4. Power-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
  1. Extending the sharp dimension-estimate rigidity for polynomial-growth holomorphic functions to nonnegative holomorphic sectional curvature

    Open for less than 1 year
  2. Positive orthogonal holomorphic bisectional curvature on compact complex manifolds: is the Hermitian Frankel property rigid beyond the conformally Kähler setting?

    Open for about 11 years
  3. Yau's uniformization conjecture for complete simply connected Kähler manifolds with negatively pinched sectional curvature

    Open for about 49 years
  4. Does nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature imply nonnegative isotropic curvature on Kähler manifolds of complex dimension at least three?

    Open for about 18 years
  5. Holomorphic 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 year
  6. Converse 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
  1. Finite completions of codes within structured families: θ-invariant codes and strong alt-induced codes

    Open for about 8 years
  2. Decidability of the inclusion problem for finite codes: deciding whether a finite code can be embedded in a finite maximal code

    Open for about 49 years
  3. Good arrangements of the a∗wa∗a^*wa^*-components of finite maximal codes and Krasner factorizations of cyclic groups

    Open for about 9 years
  4. The embedding problem for the class of strong alt-induced codes: maximal extensions preserving regularity and finiteness

    Open for about 8 years
  5. Decidability of the inclusion problem for finite codes: embedding a finite code into a finite maximal code

    Open for about 49 years
  6. Finite completions of theta-invariant codes: which finite theta-invariant codes embed into a finite complete theta-invariant code?

    Open for about 8 years
  7. Realizability of complete bayonet codes as slices CM(ω)C_M(\omega) of finite maximal codes

    Open for about 3 years
  8. Does Shor's bayonet code have a finite completion? The triangle conjecture for finite maximal codes

    Open for about 37 years
  9. Completing 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
  1. Attainable spectra of Tsfasman–Vlăduţ invariants of towers of global fields: infinite supports, order-rr optimality over non-square finite fields, and minimal spectra

    Open for about 14 years
  2. Exact limit of the Bassa–Beelen–Nguyen Drinfeld modular tower over an elliptic-curve coordinate ring

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Improving the lower bounds for the Ihara constants A(2)A(2) and A(3)A(3) (toward determining A(q)A(q) for nonsquare finite fields)

    Open for about 41 years
  4. Explicit optimal Drinfeld-modular towers beyond the polynomial ring: the remaining degree-two principal ideals

    Open for less than 1 year
  5. Closed-form Serre-type arithmetic refinements of Weil–Oesterlé bounds of order n≥3n\ge 3

    Open for about 1 year
Seifert's conjecture on the multiplicity of brake orbits5 questions
  1. Multiplicity of orthogonal geodesic chords in ball-diffeomorphic Riemannian manifolds with boundary focal points

    Open for about 10 years
  2. Seifert's conjecture on the multiplicity of brake orbits in potential wells

    Open for about 78 years
  3. At least n brake orbits for classical-type Hamiltonians: the generalized Seifert conjecture for disk-shaped potential wells

    Open for about 78 years
  4. Hypothesis-free multiplicity of orthogonal geodesic chords in strongly concave Riemannian disks, and generic multiplicity among smooth metrics

    Open for about 78 years
  5. Dispensability 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
  1. 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 years
  2. Fundamental bisimple embeddings for solid regular and locally inverse semigroups (the Uniform Bands problem)

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Problem 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 years
  4. Explicit semiband embedding for semigroups whose regular D-classes are aperiodic semigroups

    Open for about 14 years
  5. The 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
  1. Diffeomorphism classification of smooth weighted complete intersections beyond the odd pairwise-coprime regime

    Open for about 14 years
  2. The 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 years
  3. Inertia groups of non-spin 4-dimensional complete intersections (Crowley–Nagy Conjecture 1.15)

    Open for about 29 years
  4. Classification of smooth complete intersections by total degree, Pontrjagin classes, and Euler characteristic in complex dimension at least 8

    Open for about 44 years
  5. The Sullivan conjecture for complete intersections: diffeomorphism classification in complex dimension at least 5

    Open for about 49 years
  6. The Sullivan Conjecture for complete intersections of complex dimension at least 8

    Open for about 44 years
Generalized metric space problem4 questions
  1. 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 years
  2. Are the shortest-Hamiltonian-path, smallest-enclosing-ball, and entrywise ℓp\ell_p matrix-norm functionals gg-metrics of order n≥3n\ge 3 (for ℓp\ell_p, n≥2n\ge 2)?

    Open for about 8 years
  3. Existence and homeomorphic classification of (m,n)(m,n)-equidistant metric continua (Popvassilev's Problem 5.2 and Conjecture 5.1)

    Open for about 18 years
  4. The 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
  1. Submodule-closure of higher Ext-images En(RR)E_n(R_R) over noetherian rings: Auslander's question for n≥3n \ge 3

    Open for about 20 years
  2. Finiteness of injective dimension for (quasi-)Gorenstein generalized tilting modules over Artin algebras (Huang's Conjecture 4.7)

    Open for about 20 years
  3. Tensorly 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 years
  4. Wakamatsu 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 years
  5. The Wakamatsu tilting conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension a classical tilting module?

    Open for about 19 years
  6. The Wakamatsu Tilting Conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension a tilting module?

    Open for about 19 years
  7. The Wakamatsu Tilting Conjecture: is every Wakamatsu tilting module of finite projective dimension over an Artin algebra tilting?

    Open for about 19 years
  8. When does the ω\omega-torsionfree class Tω(R)T_\omega(R) equal the generalized Gorenstein class Gω(R)G_\omega(R) for a Wakamatsu tilting bimodule?

    Open for about 12 years
Generalized Smale conjecture4 questions
  1. 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 years
  2. Uniqueness 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 years
  3. Cohomology of BDiffB\mathrm{Diff} for connected sums of lens spaces beyond the generic non-diffeomorphic case

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Unboundedness 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
  1. Twisted symmetric differential vanishing for smooth subvarieties of projective space in the Hartshorne complete-intersection regime

    Open for about 3 years
  2. The Barth–Ionescu conjecture: are smooth projective varieties of degree less than their dimension complete intersections?

    Open for about 14 years
  3. Hartshorne's codimension-two complete intersection conjecture and its rank-two bundle splitting form

    Open for about 51 years
  4. Hartshorne's conjecture on the Chow groups of hypersurfaces: is Ai(X)=Q[hi]A^i(X)=\mathbb{Q}[h^i] for i<n/2i<n/2?

    Open for about 52 years
  5. Rational smoothability of algebraic cycle classes: is H2c(X,Q)algH^{2c}(X,\mathbb{Q})_{\mathrm{alg}} generated by classes of smooth subvarieties?

    Open for about 2 years
  6. Is the smooth rational quartic curve in P3\mathbb{P}^3 a set-theoretic complete intersection?

    Open for about 64 years
  7. Rational-curve determination of the nef-cone slope of rank-two vector bundles on Fano manifolds (the τ=τ0\tau=\tau_0 question of Muñoz–Occhetta–Solá Conde)

    Open for about 15 years
  8. Voisin's conjecture: is the class of a very moving subvariety big?

    Open for about 18 years
  9. Existence of a smooth quadratic non-complete-intersection 11-fold in P17\mathbb{P}^{17} of Fano index 8: the remaining case of Watanabe's classification of quadratic varieties with n=2c−1n=2c-1

    Open for about 2 years
  10. Hartshorne'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
  1. 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 years
  2. KAM-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 years
  3. Herman'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 years
  4. Lyapunov-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 years
  5. Nonlinear 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 years
  6. Lyapunov-unstable elliptic equilibria with convergent Birkhoff normal form for real-analytic Hamiltonians

    Open for about 8 years
  7. Open 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
  1. Does Hunt's hypothesis (H) hold for the lacunary pure-jump subordinators of Hu–Sun–Zhang?

    Open for about 13 years
  2. Hunt's Hypothesis (H) for Pure Jump Lévy Processes and Pure Jump Subordinators

    Open for about 7 years
  3. Joint continuity of measure-indexed continuous additive functionals and Getoor's conjecture on Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes

    Open for about 40 years
  4. Is Hunt's Hypothesis (H) Preserved under the Sum of Two Independent Lévy Processes?

    Open for about 12 years
  5. Polarity transfer from intrinsic Hausdorff measure in balayage spaces: extending the criteria for polar sets beyond hypotheses (*) and (iv')

    Open for about 8 years
  6. Getoor's conjecture: characterize Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes in terms of the Lévy–Khintchine triplet

    Open for about 40 years
  7. Is Hunt's hypothesis (H) stable under the sum of two independent Lévy processes?

    Open for about 11 years
  8. Getoor's conjecture: Hunt's hypothesis (H) for Lévy processes

    Open for about 56 years
Hopf conjecture3 questions
  1. The Chern–Hopf sign conjecture: sign of the Euler characteristic of closed manifolds of nonpositive or negative sectional curvature

    Open for about 70 years
  2. Symmetry-rank thresholds for the Hopf conjecture under positive intermediate Ricci curvature: existence of a bound d(k)d(k) for k≥3k\ge 3

    Open for about 1 year
  3. The Hopf conjecture: do even-dimensional manifolds of positive sectional curvature have positive Euler characteristic?

    Open for about 94 years
Hopf problem4 questions
  1. Torus-symmetry thresholds for the Hopf conjecture under positive kk-th intermediate Ricci curvature with k≥3k\ge 3

    Open for about 1 year
  2. Hopf conjecture for positively curved manifolds with discrete abelian symmetry: the residual regimes of the Su–Wang theorem

    Open for about 18 years
  3. Sharp 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 year
  4. The Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 and Zp\mathbb{Z}_p 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
  1. Does Putinar's Positivstellensatz descend to Archimedean subfields of the real numbers?

    Open for about 16 years
  2. Exact-arithmetic construction and facial decomposition of pseudo-moment certificates for positive non-SOS forms

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Provable guarantees and complexity bounds for exact rational sum-of-squares certification from floating-point computations

    Open for about 18 years
  4. Descent of nonnegativity certificates to rational coefficients: finite generation of Pos(K)Pos(K) as a preordering of Q[x]\mathbb{Q}[x] for specific compact intervals with algebraic boundary, and archimedeanity of rational quadratic modules

    Open for about 16 years
  5. Archimedean descent for finitely generated quadratic modules from R[X1,…,Xn]\mathbb{R}[X_1,\dots,X_n] to Q[X1,…,Xn]\mathbb{Q}[X_1,\dots,X_n]

    Open for about 16 years
Minimal tower problem7 questions
  1. Pseudointersection and tower numbers of topological Ramsey spaces: the Dobrinen–Navarro Flores questions on pR≤p\mathfrak{p}_\mathcal{R}\le\mathfrak{p}, pR=tR\mathfrak{p}_\mathcal{R}=\mathfrak{t}_\mathcal{R}, and values outside {ω1,p}\{\omega_1,\mathfrak{p}\}

  2. 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?

  3. Hechler's tower and mad-family forcings at uncountable cardinals: equivalence, cross-addition, and the almost disjointness number

  4. Generalized tower numbers at uncountable cardinals: the exact consistency strength of tκ>κ+\mathfrak{t}_\kappa>\kappa^+ and the π\pi-depth equality πt(U)=πp(U)\pi\mathfrak{t}(U)=\pi\mathfrak{p}(U)

  5. Is the auxiliary cardinal d∗\mathfrak{d}^* equal to d\mathfrak{d}? Optimal tower-refinement of filter-bases after p=t\mathfrak{p}=\mathfrak{t}

  6. Does p(κ)=t(κ)\mathfrak{p}(\kappa)=\mathfrak{t}(\kappa) hold for every uncountable regular cardinal κ\kappa? (the higher analogue of Malliaris–Shelah's p=t\mathfrak{p}=\mathfrak{t})

  7. Towers of singular order type in pseudo-tree algebras: extending Monk's regular-cardinal characterization

Problem of commutation between tight closure and localization8 questions
  1. The (LC) conjecture: uniform linear annihilation of the local cohomology of Frobenius powers, and the relation between (LC) and (LC*)

    Open for about 26 years
  2. Equality of the finitistic and full tight-closure annihilators in FF-pure local rings

    Open for about 36 years
  3. Ascent of F-coherence: polynomial rings, smooth base change, and lifting from hypersurface quotients

    Open for about 17 years
  4. Principal localization of tight closure and the existence of its failure in characteristic p>2p>2

    Open for about 18 years
  5. Does tight closure commute with localization at a single element?

    Open for about 18 years
  6. Single-element localization of tight closure and coherence of sheafified tight closure

    Open for about 38 years
  7. The (LC) and (LC*) conjectures: uniform linear bounds for saturating the Frobenius powers of homogeneous ideals

    Open for about 26 years
  8. Openness 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
  1. The closed geodesics conjecture for compact rank-one symmetric spaces: does every Riemannian metric on SnS^n (n≥3n\ge3), CPm\mathbb{CP}^m, HPm\mathbb{HP}^m, or the Cayley plane carry infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics?

    Open for about 50 years
  2. The closed geodesics conjecture: infinitely many geometrically distinct closed geodesics on every closed Riemannian manifold

    Open for about 75 years
  3. Finitely presented almost cyclic groups (Kourovka Notebook Problem 8.8b) and the second closed geodesic on closed K(π,1)K(\pi,1)-manifolds

    Open for about 44 years
  4. Infinitely many closed geodesics on every compact Riemannian and reversible Finsler manifold (Long's Conjectures 1 and 3)

    Open for about 57 years
  5. Duan–Long–Wang conjecture on the dichotomy of the number of prime closed geodesics on compact simply-connected Finsler manifolds with rational cohomology Td,n+1(x)T_{d,n+1}(x)

    Open for about 10 years
  6. The Katok–Anosov conjecture: sharp multiplicity of closed geodesics on Finsler spheres

    Open for about 52 years
  7. Infinitely 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
  1. The optimal constant for Ramsey goodness of cycles versus general graphs

    Open for about 8 years
Finiteness problem of associated prime ideals of local cohomology modules7 questions
  1. Descent of associated-prime and Bass-number finiteness of local cohomology along cyclically pure ring extensions

    Open for about 10 years
  2. The 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 years
  3. Does finiteness of associated primes of HIi−1(R/J)H^{i-1}_I(R/J) imply finiteness of associated primes of HIi(J)H^i_I(J) for complete-intersection ideals JJ in LC-finite regular rings?

    Open for about 7 years
  4. Open questions from the generalized Hartshorne problem: II-weak cofiniteness of the generalized local cohomology modules HIi(M,N)H_I^i(M,N)

    Open for about 3 years
  5. Hochster's question on finiteness of closed-fiber-supported associated primes of local cohomology for flat extensions with regular closed fiber

    Open for about 13 years
  6. Cofiniteness and associated-prime finiteness of generalized local cohomology modules: the open boundary beyond dimension two

    Open for about 56 years
  7. Finiteness 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
  1. Topological conjugacy of periodic linear maps: the unresolved mixed-order cyclic cases of the nonlinear similarity classification

    Open for about 53 years
  2. Complete classification of topologically skew-conjugate projective flows of linear flows on vector bundles

    Open for about 19 years
  3. Topological conjugacy of linear endomorphisms: the Kuiper–Robbin classification problem, its root-of-unity core, and discrete-time real projective transformations

    Open for about 53 years
  4. Complete topological (C0C^0) conjugacy classification of linear operators on finite-dimensional spaces

    Open for about 53 years
  5. Topological 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
  1. 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 years
  2. Arithmetic nature of the basic invariants of semisimple Hopf algebras: algebraic integrality and cyclotomicity

    Open for about 11 years
  3. Kaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius-type divisibility for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras

    Open for about 51 years
  4. Kaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius divisibility of irreducible module dimensions for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras

    Open for about 51 years
  5. Kaplansky's sixth conjecture: Frobenius divisibility for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras

    Open for about 51 years
Cayley graphs and related problems7 questions
  1. 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 year
  2. Fixed-valency GRR density: is the proportion of kk-valent Cayley graphs that are graphical regular representations tending to 1?

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. Well-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 years
  4. Is every connected bicirculant, apart from K2K_2 and the generalized Petersen graphs G(m,2)G(m,2) with m≡5(mod6)m\equiv 5\pmod 6, hamiltonian? (Bonvicini–Pisanski–Žitnik's bicirculant hamiltonicity conjecture)

    Open for about 1 year
  5. Cantor spectra and torsion-free multi-band spectra of Cayley graphs: two open existence questions for adjacency operators of groups

    Open for about 8 years
  6. Alon's Ramsey Cayley conjecture for the small-characteristic vector spaces F2n\mathbb{F}_2^n and F3n\mathbb{F}_3^n, and the associated subspace-coloring problem

    Open for about 31 years
  7. Does 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
  1. Lusztig's conjectures P1–P15 for Hecke algebras of Coxeter groups with arbitrary positive weight functions

    Open for about 24 years
  2. An effective, algorithmic description of Kazhdan–Lusztig cells in infinite Coxeter groups

    Open for about 15 years
  3. The bound aJ,va_{J,v} of JJ-folded alcove path representations and Lusztig's aa-function (Conjectures 6.14-6.16 of Guilhot-Little-Parkinson)

    Open for about 3 years
  4. Coincidence 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 years
  5. The 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 years
  6. Characterising 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 years
  7. Semicontinuity 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
  1. Existence of Steiner quadruple systems with minimum colorable derived designs: smallest unknown orders and auxiliary candelabra designs for infinite families

    Open for about 1 year
  2. Existence of large sets of Kirkman triple systems of orders 375 and 399 (the two remaining prime-power exceptions below 400)

    Open for about 9 years
  3. Completing 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 years
  4. Existence 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 years
  5. The existence spectrum of overlarge sets of Kirkman triple systems with two special points (OLKTS+^+)

    Open for about 2 years
  6. The existence spectrum of large sets of Kirkman triple systems (Sylvester's problem)

    Open for about 176 years
  7. Existence spectrum of large sets of Kirkman triple systems

    Open for about 176 years
  8. Large sets of Kirkman triple systems: the twelve remaining orders below 400

    Open for about 176 years
  9. Base-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 years
  10. Existence spectrum of overlarge sets of Kirkman triple systems (OLKTS(v))

    Open for about 17 years
Transversal problem of Latin squares8 questions
  1. Multilinear decay for the Latin squares of random Steiner triple systems

    Open for about 3 years
  2. Sharp transversal deficit in equi-nn-squares: does every equi-nn-square have a transversal of size at least n−Cnn-C\sqrt{n}?

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Pinned entries in latin square transversals: extremal bounds, odd-order existence, and coincidence without pinning

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Rainbow directed cycles and paths of length at least n−1n-1 in proper arc-colourings of the complete bidirected graph

    Open for about 51 years
  5. Latin squares with extreme transversal intersection structure: pairwise-intersecting transversals with no pinned entry, and dominant transversals

    Open for less than 1 year
  6. The maximum number of transversals in dd-dimensional Latin hypercubes at every order (Glebov–Luria conjecture)

    Open for about 11 years
  7. Deterministic polynomial-time construction of near-full transversals in equi-nn-squares

    Open for about 51 years
  8. Ryser's conjecture: full transversals in Latin squares of odd order

    Open for about 59 years
The Ramras problem6 questions
  1. Path and cycle decompositions of the hypercube: the divisibility characterization (Erde's conjecture) and fundamental-set realization of Ramras

    Open for about 29 years
  2. Divisibility of hypercubes by paths and cycles of prescribed length, and fundamental decompositions (the Mollard–Ramras questions)

    Open for about 14 years
  3. Initial growth of the Betti sequence of the canonical module: when is βn(ωR)>βn−1(ωR)\beta_n(\omega_R)>\beta_{n-1}(\omega_R), and is βn(ωR)\beta_n(\omega_R) determined by the preceding Betti numbers?

    Open for about 20 years
  4. Decomposing the even hypercube QnQ_n into 2mn2^m n-cycles in the unresolved window of the regime n<2m<2n/nn < 2^m < 2^n/n

    Open for about 8 years
  5. Ramras' problem: when is every finitely generated reflexive module over a commutative noetherian local ring free?

    Open for about 54 years
  6. Ramras' problem: characterize the commutative noetherian local rings over which every finitely generated reflexive module is free

    Open for about 55 years
Langlands Program9 questions
  1. Are Farmer–Pitale–Ryan–Schmidt's tempered balanced analytic LL-functions automorphic? The Selberg–Langlands A=QA=Q question

    Open for about 37 years
  2. Genericity of ABV-packets for general pp-adic reductive groups and Vogan's conjecture identifying ABV-packets with Arthur packets beyond tempered parameters

    Open for about 34 years
  3. The enhanced Shahidi conjecture for general quasi-split reductive groups over non-Archimedean local fields

    Open for about 15 years
  4. Strong functorial lift (LL- and ε\varepsilon-factor compatibility) and full Ramanujan conjecture for the quasi-split non-split even orthogonal group SO2n∗\mathbf{SO}_{2n}^{*} over function fields

    Open for about 4 years
  5. Bernstein's modified local Langlands correspondence (LLC-prime): extension to all irreducible smooth representations, the role of the two-fold cover W2W_2, and the analytic theory of the attached RR-functions

    Open for about 6 years
  6. Beraldo's conjecture: the action of H(LocSysGˇ)\mathbb{H}(\mathrm{LocSys}_{\check{G}}) on D(BunG)D(\mathrm{Bun}_G)

    Open for about 9 years
  7. Component exhaustion and Hecke eigensheaves for the restricted geometric Langlands correspondence in positive characteristic

    Open for about 5 years
  8. The Fontaine–Mazur conjecture for irreducible geometric Galois representations of dimension greater than 2

    Open for about 31 years
  9. Temperedness 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
  1. The real-quadratic Rabinowitsch problem at the two-prime-divisor level: determine all d≡2(mod4)d\equiv 2\pmod 4 for which d−x2d-x^2 has at most two distinct prime divisors for every admissible even x≤dx\le\sqrt d

    Open for less than 1 year
  2. Caliber number 2 for real quadratic fields with radicand d≡5(mod8)d\equiv 5\pmod 8: completing the Jun–Lee classification

    Open for about 15 years
  3. Non-trivial plus parts of cyclotomic class numbers for continued-fraction families with d≡2(mod4)d \equiv 2 \pmod 4

    Open for about 4 years
  4. Gauss'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 years
  5. Gauss'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 years
  6. Gauss's conjecture: infinitely many real quadratic fields of class number one

    Open for about 225 years
  7. Unconditional completion of the class number one problem for extended Richaud–Degert type real quadratic fields

    Open for about 36 years
  8. Unconditional 2-stage Euclideanity of real quadratic fields of class number one

    Open for about 51 years
Discrete logarithm solving problems6 questions
  1. Rigorous complexity of index calculus for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem over fixed small-degree extension fields

    Open for about 17 years
  2. Tight 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 years
  3. Unconditional quantum generic ring model lower bounds for order finding and integer factoring

    Open for about 2 years
  4. Existence of degree-two polynomial models for the quasi-polynomial discrete logarithm algorithm in finite fields of fixed characteristic

    Open for about 11 years
  5. Degree of regularity of Weil-descent systems from Semaev summation polynomials: does Dreg=m2−m+1+o(1)D_{reg}=m^2-m+1+o(1)?

    Open for about 13 years
  6. Logarithmic 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

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