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247 research topics · 1651 questions

Spectral asymptotics of elliptic operators and the Weyl-Berry conjecture3 questions
  1. Classification of generator-remainder behaviours for meromorphic continuation of the renewal transform in Koch-snowflake fractal sprays

    Open for about 2 years
  2. Converse spectral problem for fractal strings with regularly varying gauge functions

    Open for about 29 years
  3. Lattice-case eigenvalue counting asymptotics for Laplacians on generalized Sierpiński carpets

    Open for about 16 years
Irreducible decomposition of differential algebraic varieties8 questions
  1. The generalized Ritt problem: uniform bounds on differentiations for detecting components of differential ideals, equivalently definability in families of irreducibility of differential varieties

    Open for about 76 years
  2. Definability of primality for radical differential ideals and the generalized Ritt problem (Harrison-Trainor–Klys–Moosa Conjecture 1.1)

    Open for about 18 years
  3. The generalized Ritt problem: computing the essential prime components of a radical differential ideal

    Open for about 53 years
  4. The Ritt problem: algorithmic containment of prime differential ideals and essential prime decomposition of radical differential ideals

    Open for about 90 years
  5. Completeness of projective differential algebraic varieties: classification, the zero-dimensional test reduction, and the constant Kolchin polynomial question

    Open for about 12 years
  6. Deciding strong irreducibility of ascending chains and computing prime decompositions of perfect ideals of differential-difference polynomials

    Open for about 17 years
  7. Small irreducible components of arc spaces in positive characteristic: component status, transfer of arc-sharpness, curve selection at arc-blunt points, and birational elimination

    Open for about 7 years
  8. The Jacobi bound conjecture for prime differential ideals presented by generators

    Open for about 161 years
Trivial strongly minimal sets over differentially closed fields8 questions
  1. Kodaira-Spencer rank distribution in Buium's delta-stratification of the moduli of principally polarized abelian varieties: simple abelian varieties, Jacobians, and Manin-kernel absolute dimensions

  2. Geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets that fail ℵ0\aleph_0-categoricity: classification beyond arithmetic groups

  3. Strong minimality and geometric triviality of generic differential equations (Conjectures 1.5 and 1.7 of DeVilbiss–Freitag)

  4. Are geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets in differentially closed fields unimodular? (Nagloo's Conjecture 4.1)

  5. Non-ℵ0\aleph_0-categorical geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets in DCF0DCF_0 beyond arithmetic Fuchsian groups (Casale–Freitag–Nagloo, Question 2.15)

  6. Statement (C2)(C_2): binary algebraic independence of the solutions of a general planar algebraic vector field

  7. Ax-Schanuel for the first Painlevé equation

  8. Algebraic independence of Painlevé transcendents at non-generic parameter values

Weiss finite local primitive graph conjecture10 questions
  1. Existence of locally-3n:23^n{:}2 graphs with nontrivial third iterated local kernel Gx[3]G_x^{[3]}

    Open for about 12 years
  2. The Weiss conjecture for locally primitive graphs with almost simple or product action local type

    Open for about 48 years
  3. The Weiss conjecture: valency-only bounds on vertex stabilizers of locally primitive vertex-transitive graphs and its equivalent second-singular-value formulation

    Open for about 48 years
  4. Is every semiprimitive transitive permutation group graph-restrictive? (the converse implication of the Potočnik–Spiga–Verret conjecture)

    Open for about 15 years
  5. Uniform Kazhdan–Margulis neighbourhoods for cocompact lattices with dense projections in products of quasi just-non-compact tdlc groups (Caprace–Le Boudec, Question 5.1)

    Open for about 8 years
  6. Tornier's finiteness conjecture for discrete groups acting on trees with semiprimitive local action and an involutive inversion

    Open for about 6 years
  7. Graph-restrictiveness of semiprimitive groups with a regular normal nilpotent subgroup: the exceptional cases where 2 or 3 divides the degree (the Potočnik–Spiga–Verret conjecture)

    Open for about 12 years
  8. Bounding vertex-stabilisers in finite vertex-transitive graphs: the Weiss, Praeger, and PSV conjectures

    Open for about 48 years
  9. The Weiss conjecture for primitive local actions of almost simple, simple diagonal, and product action type

    Open for about 48 years
  10. The Weiss conjecture: is the order of a vertex stabiliser in a finite locally primitive vertex-transitive graph bounded by the valency alone?

    Open for about 48 years
Automorphism group problem of Witt algebras5 questions
  1. Determine the automorphism group of the rank-nn Witt algebra Wn=Der C[x1,…,xn]W_n=\mathrm{Der}\,\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n] (equivalently the polynomial automorphism group Aut C[x1,…,xn]\mathrm{Aut}\,\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_n]) for n≥3n\ge 3

    Open for about 54 years
  2. Rota--Baxter operators beyond the homogeneous block-diagonal class and Novikov--Poisson structures on the full transposed Poisson algebra W(a,−1)\mathcal{W}(a,-1)

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. Central extensions, derivations, and automorphisms of multi-copy semi-direct sums of the Witt algebra with its intermediate series modules

    Open for about 2 years
  4. Non-surjective local and 2-local automorphisms of simple generalized Witt algebras with non-finitely generated grading group

    Open for about 6 years
  5. Automorphism groups of Lie algebras of polynomial vector fields in infinitely many variables (the Bezushchak–Kashuba conjectures)

    Open for about 1 year
Minimal representations of phase-type distributions6 questions
  1. Minimal-order phase-type representations beyond three distinct real poles: extending the invariant-polytope construction to more, repeated, and complex poles, with global guarantees

    Open for about 18 years
  2. The minimal positive realization problem: characterizing the minimal dimension of positive state-space realizations

    Open for about 30 years
  3. Canonical representation of general phase-type distributions of order four and higher

    Open for about 17 years
  4. Minimal-Norm Phase-Type Representations and the Minimal Maier Parameter Beyond Order Two

    Open for about 27 years
  5. Efficient identification of all equivalent representations of Coxian phase-type distributions: permutation feasibility and complexity

  6. A computable upper bound on the triangular order of phase-type distributions with real poles

    Open for about 35 years
Weinstein conjecture7 questions
  1. The Weinstein conjecture for closed contact manifolds of dimension at least five

    Open for about 47 years
  2. The multiplicity and elliptic-orbit conjectures for arbitrary Reeb flows on the standard contact sphere

    Open for about 36 years
  3. The Weinstein conjecture in exact cotangent bundles: closed characteristics on compact contact-type hypersurfaces

    Open for about 47 years
  4. Characterizing the open contact manifolds that satisfy the Weinstein conjecture

    Open for about 32 years
  5. Strong Weinstein conjecture in dimension three: homologically trivial weighted cycles of closed Reeb orbits (Abbas–Cieliebak–Hofer conjecture)

    Open for about 21 years
  6. Invariant Reeb orbits of strict contactomorphisms: Mazzucchelli's generalized Weinstein conjecture

    Open for about 11 years
  7. The Weinstein conjecture for closed contact manifolds of dimension at least five

    Open for about 47 years
Stable equivalence conjecture7 questions
  1. Conjecture 5.18 (Zhang, 2025): every finite weakly simple-minded system over a self-injective algebra is a simple-minded system

    Open for less than 1 year
  2. Stable-equivalence classification, scalar problems, and the Auslander–Reiten conjecture for self-injective algebras of polynomial growth

    Open for about 16 years
  3. Cardinality of simple-minded systems in stable module categories (Koenig–Liu Question 6.1): does every simple-minded system over an artin algebra have exactly as many objects as the non-projective simples?

    Open for about 16 years
  4. Auslander–Reiten conjecture on stable equivalences: invariance of the number of non-projective simple modules

    Open for about 31 years
  5. Completing the classification of Erdmann's algebras of dihedral, semi-dihedral and quaternion type up to stable equivalence of Morita type: the surviving scalar-parameter problems

    Open for about 16 years
  6. The Auslander–Reiten conjecture for stable equivalences: preservation of non-projective simple modules and the gluing-of-idempotents characterization

    Open for about 31 years
  7. Conditional closure of stable equivalences of Morita type under tensor products, and completeness of the syzygy-algebra invariant B(ΩCe;C)B(\Omega_{C^e};C)

    Open for about 11 years
Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture4 questions
  1. The unresolved density regimes for Seymour's second neighbourhood conjecture on G(n,p)G(n,p): the critical case p=1/2p=1/2 and the p→1p\to 1 regime

    Open for about 2 years
  2. Characterizing the P⃗\vec{\mathcal{P}}-forcing graphs and the Second Neighborhood Conjecture for oriented graphs missing them

    Open for about 5 years
  3. Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture: pushing the universal constant beyond 0.715538 and the limit of the nested weighted-minimizer/CSP method

    Open for about 31 years
  4. Seymour's and Sullivan's second-neighbourhood conjectures for oriented split graphs and multipartite tournaments

    Open for about 3 years
Hilbert's 16th problem6 questions
  1. The sharp upper bound on the number of algebraic limit cycles of planar polynomial vector fields (the simple version of Hilbert's 16th problem for algebraic limit cycles)

    Open for about 16 years
  2. Realizable real schemes of M-curves of degree 9 with deep nests (Hilbert's 16th problem, part I, at the frontier degree)

    Open for about 126 years
  3. The second part of Hilbert's sixteenth problem: finiteness and value of the Hilbert number H(n)H(n) for planar polynomial vector fields

    Open for about 126 years
  4. The monomial-count variant of Hilbert's 16th problem: bounds for the Hilbert monomial number HM(m)\mathcal{H}^M(m) and the Newton-polygon bound on periodic annuli

    Open for about 6 years
  5. Open problems completing the zero-dimensional infinitesimal and tangential 16th Hilbert problem: higher-order Melnikov functions, Bautin index, bifurcation diagrams, real zero counts, and chains

    Open for about 2 years
  6. Refined Ragsdale conjecture for M-curves of even degree: extremal bounds on even and odd ovals

    Open for about 120 years
Hilbert's 9th problem: how Gauss's quadratic reciprocity law generalizes9 questions
  1. Explicit reciprocity laws for Hilbert symbols over higher-dimensional local fields at the prime 2

    Open for about 41 years
  2. Realizing the full Hilbert symbol, including its wild part, as a boundary map of a K-theory localization sequence, and a localization-theoretic proof of Hilbert reciprocity for number fields

    Open for about 11 years
  3. The second reciprocity law for Pablos Romo's 3-cocycle symbols on a curve over a discretely valued field

    Open for about 20 years
  4. The residue-characteristic-2 case of Shafarevich-style explicit formulas for the Hilbert pairing on complete higher-dimensional fields

    Open for about 28 years
  5. Extending K-theoretic flag-symbol reciprocity to arithmetic bases: realizing Hilbert reciprocity over Spec⁡Z\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{Z}

    Open for about 11 years
  6. Explicit reciprocity laws for formal Drinfeld modules without the congruence hypothesis, and their extension to higher local fields

    Open for about 4 years
  7. Obstruction-free regimes for qqth-degree power-residue reciprocity laws from Brauer-group exact sequences

    Open for about 2 years
  8. The two-dimensional Contou-Carrère symbol: adelic two-dimensional class field theory

    Open for about 13 years
  9. Generalizing the supplement to Scholz's reciprocity law: an odd-prime analogue and higher-power reciprocity for the primes above 2 in Q(pq)\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{pq})

    Open for about 19 years
Hilbert's 12th problem: construction of the maximal abelian extension of number fields9 questions
  1. Algebraicity of higher elliptic units for number fields with exactly one complex place (the unproven half of Morain's optimal-settings conjecture)

    Open for about 2 years
  2. Nondegeneracy of the half-system matrix NℓN_{\ell} and the completion of Koo–Yoon's explicit construction of class fields over cyclotomic fields

    Open for about 14 years
  3. Extended Hecke class-field inclusions and missing ring class field data in the measured-foliation approach to Hilbert's 12th problem

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Stark's unit conjecture for the theta-null generators of class fields of primitive CM fields: integrality of the theta-null Stark units ϵ(R)\epsilon(R)

    Open for about 20 years
  5. Hilbert's twelfth problem for totally real fields: complex-analytic generation of the maximal abelian extension

    Open for about 126 years
  6. Algebraicity, reciprocity law, and Kronecker limit formula for higher elliptic units over number fields with exactly one complex place

    Open for about 2 years
  7. The Charollois–Darmon conjecture: Stark unit arguments as periods of Hilbert Eisenstein series for ATR fields (Conjecture 4.1, 2008)

    Open for about 17 years
  8. Explicit analytic generation of ray class fields beyond imaginary quadratic fields: Siegel–Ramachandra invariants over imaginary biquadratic and CM fields

    Open for about 13 years
  9. Characterizing pseudo-Anosov measured foliations whose endomorphism-field extension is a ring class field (Nikolaev's measured-foliation approach to Hilbert's 12th problem)

    Open for about 15 years
Do linearly degenerate quasi-linear hyperbolic systems prevent shock formation?7 questions
  1. Global smooth existence versus singularity formation for the 3D compressible Euler equations of Chaplygin gases with non-zero vorticity: the prototype open case of Majda's conjecture

    Open for about 42 years
  2. Geometric shock formation for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with linearly degenerate characteristic fields: validity of the no-shock conjecture (Property A) without structural hypotheses

    Open for about 18 years
  3. Majda's ODE-type singularity conjecture for linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic systems

    Open for about 42 years
  4. Sharp structural characterization of small-data global classical solvability for one-dimensional quasilinear hyperbolic systems with source terms

    Open for about 14 years
  5. Linear degeneracy and shock-free smooth evolution of the fully coupled Einstein equations in generalized-harmonic and fully constrained formulations

    Open for about 21 years
  6. Majda's conjecture on ODE-type singularity formation for one-dimensional quasilinear hyperbolic systems with linearly degenerate characteristic fields

    Open for about 42 years
  7. Global regularity versus finite-time singularity formation for quasi-semilinear second-order hyperbolic systems with exclusively linearly degenerate modes

    Open for about 2 years
Statistical modeling problems for complex censored data under dependent structures3 questions
  1. Valid combined inverse-probability-of-treatment and intensity weighting under informative censoring

    Open for about 2 years
  2. Dependence-robust evaluation of survival models under dependent censoring: misspecification robustness and stable estimation of the latent event-censoring copula

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Identifiable dependent-censoring priors for amortized in-context survival prediction (the SurvivalPFN dependent-censoring extension)

    Open for less than 1 year
Soliton conjecture in the Schrödinger equation7 questions
  1. Asymptotic stability of one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger solitary waves beyond the spectral assumptions: internal modes and edge resonances

    Open for about 3 years
  2. Asymptotic stability of well-separated multi-solitons for the 1D L2L^2-supercritical NLS in the full range k>2k>2

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Global attraction to the solitary manifold for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation coupled to a nonlinear oscillator

    Open for about 19 years
  4. Global attraction to stationary orbits for the coupled Maxwell–Schrödinger system (Komech's Conjecture A, Eq. (12.1)/(15.3))

    Open for about 7 years
  5. Classification and stability of infinite soliton trains and kink-soliton trains of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, and the construction of multikink and terrace solutions

    Open for about 11 years
  6. Asymptotic stability of small solitary waves for the one-dimensional NLS with an attractive delta potential in the mass-subcritical regime

    Open for about 8 years
  7. Soliton resolution conjecture for the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on R3\mathbb{R}^3

    Open for about 18 years
Jacobian conjecture6 questions
  1. Deciding the component dichotomy for the Jacobian-one varieties VnkV_n^k: automorphism versus counterexample components and the two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture

    Open for about 86 years
  2. The two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture and the four-dimensional Hessian conjecture over fields of characteristic zero

    Open for about 87 years
  3. Inverse degree bounds for polynomial automorphisms with bounded-rank Jacobian perturbation (Question 5.9 of Yan–de Bondt)

    Open for about 13 years
  4. The Jacobian conjecture in two variables (Jacobian mate formulation)

    Open for about 87 years
  5. The two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture: invertibility of planar Keller maps

    Open for about 87 years
  6. Convergence of the compositional inverse and the noncommutative Jacobian conjecture in Popescu's theory of free biholomorphic functions on B(H)nB(\mathcal{H})^n

    Open for about 14 years
Deficiency problems of meromorphic functions3 questions
  1. Lower-order range of the Barsegian–Yang exceptional-value relations for a-points with bounded derivative

    Open for about 22 years
  2. Volume deficiency of Banach-space-valued meromorphic functions beyond admissible compact-projection maps and the vanishing counting hypothesis, and sharpness of the Ricci-index finiteness bounds

    Open for about 8 years
  3. Equality versus strict inequality for zero–pole densities of difference operators on meromorphic functions with maximal deficiency sum

    Open for about 12 years
Do meromorphic functions and their derivatives share common Borel directions?4 questions
  1. Valiron's common Borel direction problem for meromorphic functions of finite positive order

    Open for about 98 years
  2. Converse of the angular-characteristic characterization of Borel radii for algebroid functions in the unit disc

    Open for about 17 years
  3. Converse of the sectorial-characteristic characterization of Borel radii of algebroid functions in the unit disk

    Open for about 17 years
  4. Common Borel directions of a function of finite positive order and its q-difference operator DqfD_qf

    Open for about 6 years
Main conjecture of Iwasawa theory7 questions
  1. The full Iwasawa Main Conjecture for the GL2×GU(1)\mathrm{GL}_2 \times \mathrm{GU}(1) pp-adic LL-function over totally real fields in the non-split case

    Open for about 5 years
  2. Two-variable anticyclotomic Iwasawa main conjecture for Hida families of Hilbert modular forms in the totally definite quaternionic setting over totally real fields

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. The p-integral anticyclotomic Iwasawa main conjecture for GL(n)×GL(n+1) Rankin–Selberg motives over CM fields

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Benois's Main Conjecture: the Iwasawa main conjecture for Selmer complexes attached to a regular submodule

    Open for about 12 years
  5. Greenberg's μ=0\mu = 0 conjecture for elliptic curves over Q\mathbb{Q}: vanishing of the Iwasawa μ\mu-invariant of Selmer groups over the cyclotomic Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-extension

    Open for about 27 years
  6. The Iwasawa main conjecture for CM fields: equality of the Fitting ideal of Selmer modules with Katz's analytic pp-adic LL-function

    Open for about 48 years
  7. Unconditional Iwasawa Main Conjecture for ordinary semistable elliptic curves over global function fields: removing the unramified μ-minimality hypothesis

Yang-Baxter equation8 questions
  1. Liouville integrability of the noncommutative Yang–Baxter maps of KdV, NLS and DNLS type on division rings

    Open for about 2 years
  2. Existence of simple involutive non-degenerate set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation of every cardinality m2nm^2 n

    Open for about 2 years
  3. Classifying all spectral-parameter-dependent Yang–Baxter operators from associative algebra structures: the Nichita–Parashar functional-equation system

    Open for about 20 years
  4. Classifying set-theoretic Yang–Baxter solutions by affine actions beyond the injective case, and the structure-group homomorphism of the semi-direct product of cycle sets

    Open for about 10 years
  5. Explicit associators and the quasi-Hopf structure of the quantum algebras of set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equation solutions from (skew) braces

    Open for about 4 years
  6. Classification of unitary Yang–Baxter operators: the Galindo–Rowell program of classification, localization, and virtual abelianness of braid images

    Open for about 16 years
  7. Bijectivity of the 1-cocycles between the structure monoid and the derived structure monoids of a set-theoretic solution of the Yang–Baxter equation

    Open for about 6 years
  8. Classification of constant Yang–Baxter operators in dimension greater than two and of the coloured associative-algebra ansatz system

    Open for about 34 years
Can increasing the sample size maintain the asymptotic properties of the original estimate?6 questions
  1. Optimal sequential designs with the dual goal of sequential testing and post-test estimation via the Fisher-information decomposition

    Open for about 4 years
  2. Statistical Inference for the Logistic Limit Law of Random Sums and Statistics Constructed from Samples with Random Sizes

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Preservation of the fixed-sample-size asymptotic distribution of maximum likelihood estimators under sample size re-estimation

    Open for about 7 years
  4. Extending nonparametric two-stage fixed-width confidence intervals to heavy-tailed, weaker-moment, and dependent data regimes

    Open for about 6 years
  5. General characterization of asymptotic normality for estimation after a group sequential trial

    Open for about 8 years
  6. Strong consistency and optimal regret decay for response-adaptive implementations of information-regret optimal covariate-adaptive allocation

    Open for about 10 years
Green function of a class of second-order fully nonlinear partial differential equations3 questions
  1. Convergence and error control for the nonlinear Green's function short-time expansion of wave equations with absolute-value nonlinearities

    Open for about 18 years
  2. What is the distributional Green's function of the second-order nonlinear ODE w′′+N(w)=f(t)w''+N(w)=f(t) for the transcendental nonlinearities cos⁡\cos, cosh⁡\cosh, cot⁡\cot, coth⁡\coth, arccos⁡\arccos, arccot\mathrm{arccot}, arccosh\mathrm{arccosh}, arccoth\mathrm{arccoth} that fail the generalized multiplicativity property?

    Open for about 8 years
  3. Error and convergence theory for the nonlinear Green's function short-time expansion of second-order equations nonlinear in the first derivative

    Open for about 19 years
Some algebraic Gröbner-Shirshov bases8 questions
  1. Multiplicative closure of the standard monomials for the Temperley–Lieb algebras of types B and D

    Open for about 8 years
  2. Finiteness and termination of Gröbner–Shirshov bases over commutative semirings

    Open for about 14 years
  3. Finiteness and Noetherianity of Gröbner–Shirshov bases for commutative dialgebras beyond finite generating sets and Noetherian coefficients

    Open for about 7 years
  4. Algorithmic completeness of the conformal-module Gröbner–Shirshov calculus for finitely presented Poisson algebras: termination, confluence, and the word problem

    Open for about 7 years
  5. Speciality of finite torsion-free Lie conformal (super)algebras via Gröbner–Shirshov bases with arbitrary locality functions

    Open for about 26 years
  6. Gröbner–Shirshov basis of the universal pre-associative envelope of a brace algebra (Kolesnikov's Problem 3)

    Open for about 10 years
  7. Cohn's conjecture: non-speciality of the Cohn Lie algebra over truncated polynomial algebras for every prime characteristic

    Open for about 63 years
  8. Do the two quartic special identities generate all special identities of Gelfand–Dorfman algebras, and what are the structure and dimension sequence of the free Gelfand–Dorfman algebra?

    Open for about 5 years
Quantum groups and canonical bases constructed from derived categories9 questions
  1. Perverse-sheaf categorification and canonical-type integral bases of the 2-periodic (root-category / Bridgeland) Hall algebra beyond simply-laced Dynkin type

    Open for about 13 years
  2. Completing the geometrization of quantum groups and dual semicanonical bases: multiple arrows, product structure on the almost-equal quotient, and canonical q-normalizations

    Open for about 2 years
  3. Two-periodic semi-derived Hall algebras for categories without projective resolutions (e.g. coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties) and their precise comparison with derived Hall algebras

    Open for about 13 years
  4. Hall algebras of even-periodic triangulated categories and the structures left open by the odd-periodic construction: the 2-periodic/root-category problem and the Z2-graded structure of the 3-periodic Hall algebra

    Open for about 16 years
  5. Completing the ı\imathHall-algebra realization of ı\imathquantum loop algebras of weighted projective lines: injectivity for arbitrary Kac–Moody type, the composition algebra, PBW bases, and higher-genus extensions

    Open for about 4 years
  6. Hopf structures and Drinfeld doubles for 00-affine quantum groups, and their extension beyond type AA

    Open for less than 1 year
  7. Perverse-sheaf realization of Bridgeland's Hall algebra beyond Dynkin quivers and comparison of its IC basis with canonical bases

    Open for about 13 years
  8. Explicit derived Hall algebras of the 3-Calabi–Yau categories of quivers with potential and their link to the quantized Fock–Goncharov cluster variety

    Open for about 17 years
  9. Dual canonical bases of ıquantum groups beyond type ADE: all-types construction, positivity, and geometric realization

    Open for about 1 year
Existence problem of wandering continua6 questions
  1. Classification of wandering finite gaps in degree-d>2d>2 invariant laminations: the higher-degree extension of Thurston's No Wandering Triangle theorem

    Open for about 41 years
  2. Simply connected wandering continua of post-critically finite rational maps: the Cui–Peng–Tan conjecture

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Wandering continua in Julia sets of rational maps: are arcs and Jordan curves the only possible types?

    Open for less than 1 year
  4. Existence of a wandering continuum that is neither an arc nor a Jordan curve in the Julia set of a rational map

    Open for less than 1 year
  5. Sharpness of the extended Fatou–Shishikura inequality: saturation of the critical budget by wandering branch continua in all degrees

    Open for about 16 years
  6. Always full wandering continua for post-critically finite rational maps

    Open for about 12 years
Efficient parametrization and implicitization methods for rational algebraic surfaces4 questions
  1. Effective base-point data of rational surface parametrizations from resultants: genericity tests, individual multiplicities, and the genus of the auxiliary curves

    Open for about 6 years
  2. Normal (surjective) parametrizations of rational algebraic surfaces: existence characterization and effective computation

    Open for about 35 years
  3. Birational reparametrization of rational varieties of arbitrary dimension and rational surfaces of arbitrary codimension

    Open for about 3 years
  4. Computing a finite set of rational parametrizations covering a projective rational surface with arbitrary base locus

    Open for about 5 years
Classification of rational vertex operator algebras5 questions
  1. Reconstruction of modular tensor categories from strongly rational vertex operator algebras (Möller–Rayhaun, Conjecture 3.11)

    Open for about 23 years
  2. Uniqueness of the moonshine module: the last open case in the classification of strongly rational holomorphic vertex operator algebras of central charge 24

    Open for about 38 years
  3. Existence of simple rational vertex operator algebras over positive-characteristic fields with more than one simple module

    Open for less than 1 year
  4. Zhu's conjecture: finite-dimensionality of the C2C_2-algebra of every rational vertex operator algebra

    Open for about 30 years
  5. Vertex operator algebra extensions of nonunitary Virasoro minimal models: realizing the remaining D-series and exceptional modular invariants and completing the classification

    Open for about 7 years
Davenport constant of finite Abelian groups8 questions
  1. Equality D(G)=D∗(G)\mathsf{D}(G)=\mathsf{D}^*(G) for the Davenport constant of finite abelian groups and growth of the gap D(G)−D∗(G)\mathsf{D}(G)-\mathsf{D}^*(G)

    Open for about 57 years
  2. The kk-th Davenport constants Dk(G)\mathsf{D}_k(G) and their inverse problems for finite abelian groups of rank at least 33

    Open for about 34 years
  3. Sharp uniform bounds for the Davenport constant of rank-three finite abelian groups: Zakarczemny's Conjecture D(G)≤D∗(G)+5(n1−1)D(G) \le D^*(G)+5(n_1-1), improving the explicit constant a3a_3, and the exact determination of D(G)D(G)

    Open for about 57 years
  4. The exact value of the Davenport constant of homogeneous groups: the conjecture D(Cnr)=r(n−1)+1\mathsf{D}(C_n^r) = r(n-1)+1

    Open for about 57 years
  5. Sharp upper bounds for the Davenport constant of finite abelian groups: the Narkiewicz–Śliwa conjecture and short zero-sum constants at rank at least three

    Open for about 57 years
  6. Davenport's constant for finite abelian groups of rank three

    Open for about 57 years
  7. Zero-sum subsequences of length kexp⁡(G)k\exp(G) over finite abelian groups: the Gao–Han–Peng–Sun conjecture and the remaining rank-three cases

    Open for about 12 years
  8. Davenport constant of G=Cpd−1×CpqG=C_p^{d-1}\times C_{pq} for rank d≥3d\ge 3: settling Conjecture 1 of Biswas–Mazumdar and deciding D(G)=D∗(G)D(G)=D^*(G) across the family

    Open for about 2 years
Minimization problem of the maximum of finitely many quadratic functions7 questions
  1. Exact feasibility in the bit model for the CDT problem and quadratic programs with a fixed number of quadratic constraints

    Open for about 11 years
  2. Exactness of SDP relaxations of general QCQPs beyond the polyhedral multiplier-cone regime

    Open for about 6 years
  3. Relaxing the three-generator hypothesis of Song-Xia's second-order optimality theorem and nonhomogeneous extensions of the extended quadratic alternative theorems

    Open for about 5 years
  4. Hidden convexity and exact semidefinite descriptions for minimizing the maximum of finitely many quadratic functions

    Open for about 85 years
  5. Characterizing hidden convexity of quadratic systems: when is the joint image U(f,g1,…,gm)\mathrm{U}(f,g_1,\ldots,g_m) convex for m≥2m\ge 2?

    Open for about 85 years
  6. Convexity of joint numerical ranges of three or more quadratic functions

    Open for about 27 years
  7. Counting and characterizing local non-global minimizers of the two-constraint homogeneous quadratic program (QQ2)

    Open for about 5 years
The finitistic dimension conjecture6 questions
  1. Injective generation for finite dimensional algebras: do injective modules generate the unbounded derived category?

    Open for about 25 years
  2. Existence of radical-preserving homological maps from basic Artin algebras to algebras of finite finitistic dimension (an equivalent form of the Finitistic Dimension Conjecture)

    Open for about 66 years
  3. The Finitistic Dimension Conjecture for Artin Algebras and its Equivalent Extension-Transfer Reformulations

    Open for about 66 years
  4. Left–right symmetry of finiteness of the finitistic dimension for finite dimensional algebras

    Open for about 66 years
  5. Extending the idempotent-reduction bound for finitistic dimension from primitive to arbitrary idempotents

    Open for about 7 years
  6. Second Finitistic Dimension Conjecture: finiteness of the little finitistic dimension of Artin algebras

    Open for about 66 years
Dirac operator in unitary representations6 questions
  1. Are all Dirac series members of U(p,q)U(p,q) weakly fair Aq(λ)A_{\mathfrak{q}}(\lambda)-modules? (Conjecture 1.3 of Dong–Wong)

    Open for about 6 years
  2. Dirac series of U(p,q)U(p,q) for general p,qp,q

    Open for about 6 years
  3. Dirac series of real reductive Lie groups: classifying unitary modules with nonzero Dirac cohomology beyond the tempered case

    Open for about 11 years
  4. Unitary representations with nonzero Dirac cohomology of complex Lie groups: the Barbasch–Pandžić conjecture and its remaining complex E8 case

    Open for about 16 years
  5. Removing the integrality hypothesis in the improved Helgason–Johnson bound for the real exceptional group E7(−5)E_{7(-5)}

    Open for about 4 years
  6. Dirac series of connected complex simple Lie groups: Dong's Conjecture B on the classification of unitary representations with non-zero Dirac cohomology

    Open for about 9 years
Cosmic censorship hypothesis8 questions
  1. The H1H^1 (Christodoulou) inextendibility of the Cauchy horizon of generic rotating vacuum black holes

    Open for about 17 years
  2. Penrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture: general proof or generic counterexample in classical 3+1 general relativity

    Open for about 57 years
  3. Singular inner Cauchy horizons for the Einstein vacuum equations: asymptotics and extendibility of the self-similar vacuum naked singularities

    Open for about 6 years
  4. Geroch–Traschen-regular extension of the curvature blow-up dichotomy for timelike geodesic incompleteness

    Open for about 3 years
  5. Nonlinear fate of the near-extremal Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter Cauchy horizon: mass inflation versus weak extendibility

    Open for about 7 years
  6. Dynamical second law of black hole mechanics in higher-derivative gravity and the second-law route to weak cosmic censorship

    Open for about 3 years
  7. Generic-data status of the Christodoulou–Chruściel (H1H^1) strong cosmic censorship conjecture for the spherically symmetric Einstein–Maxwell–charged-Klein–Gordon system with positive cosmological constant

    Open for about 2 years
  8. Global visibility and genericity of Tipler-strong naked singularities in spherically symmetric perfect-fluid collapse

    Open for about 6 years
Nagata conjecture10 questions
  1. The pluripotential versions of the Nagata conjecture in Cn\mathbb{C}^n: Nivoche's conjectures (P1)–(P3) on general point configurations and their equivalent algebraic forms

    Open for about 67 years
  2. Nagata's conjecture: the multipoint Seshadri constant of the projective plane at general points and full Kähler packings by equal balls

    Open for about 67 years
  3. Nagata's conjecture for ten general points: emptiness of the homogeneous linear systems Ld(m10)\mathcal{L}_d(m^{10}) below slope 10\sqrt{10}

    Open for about 67 years
  4. General versus very general points for multi-point Seshadri constants on surfaces

    Open for about 22 years
  5. Maximality of the Seshadri constant of an n-cyclic covering of the projective plane for n > 9

    Open for about 20 years
  6. Finiteness of ΛX\Lambda_X: the canonical degree conjecture for curves on smooth projective surfaces

    Open for about 12 years
  7. The valuative Nagata conjecture: minimality of very general divisorial valuations of the projective plane

    Open for about 12 years
  8. Nagata's conjecture for linear systems of plane curves at non-square numbers of general points

    Open for about 67 years
  9. Nagata-type lower-bound conjectures for Waldschmidt constants of general unions of linear subspaces

    Open for about 67 years
  10. Exact Waldschmidt constants for singular loci of complex reflection arrangements: the Klein configuration

    Open for about 9 years
Integer flow conjecture7 questions
  1. Boundedness of the real flow roots of bridgeless graphs (Jacobsen–Salas Conjecture 1.9: ΦG(Q)>0\Phi_G(Q)>0 for Q≥6Q \ge 6)

    Open for about 15 years
  2. Uniform connectivity thresholds for nowhere-zero flow reconfiguration

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. Lifting nowhere-zero Zk\mathbb{Z}_k-flows to integer kk-flows on signed graphs without long barbells for even k≥6k\ge 6 (Problem 3.14 of Lu–Luo–Schubert–Steffen–Zhang)

    Open for about 7 years
  4. The Jaeger–Linial–Payan–Tarsi conjecture (Strong 3-Flow Conjecture): is every 5-edge-connected graph Z3\mathbb{Z}_3-connected?

    Open for about 33 years
  5. Tutte's 4-flow conjecture: nowhere-zero 4-flows in bridgeless graphs with no Petersen minor

    Open for about 60 years
  6. Bouchet's 6-flow conjecture for flow-admissible signed graphs

    Open for about 43 years
  7. Tutte's 3-Flow Conjecture

    Open for about 54 years
Nakayama conjecture and generalized Nakayama conjecture9 questions
  1. The Strong Nakayama Conjecture for Artin algebras: total Ext-vanishing into the regular module forces the zero module

    Open for about 35 years
  2. The Co-Gorenstein conjecture: if every syzygy subcategory of an artin algebra is extension closed, must the algebra be right Co-Gorenstein?

    Open for about 26 years
  3. The Finitistic Dimension Conjecture for Artin Algebras

    Open for about 66 years
  4. The Generalized Nakayama Conjecture for artin algebras: does every indecomposable injective occur in the minimal injective resolution of the algebra?

    Open for about 51 years
  5. The Gorenstein bimodule conjecture: is a finite-dimensional algebra selfinjective exactly when its regular bimodule is Gorenstein projective?

    Open for about 6 years
  6. The Nakayama conjecture: must every Artin algebra of infinite dominant dimension be self-injective?

    Open for about 67 years
  7. The Nakayama conjecture: must every finite-dimensional algebra of infinite dominant dimension be self-injective?

    Open for about 67 years
  8. Explicit formulae for the finitistic dominant dimension of Nakayama algebras that are Morita algebras

    Open for about 10 years
  9. Equality cases in dominant-dimension comparisons along Frobenius bimodules and Frobenius extensions

    Open for about 7 years
Fractal dimension of Julia sets10 questions
  1. Rigorous classification of real two-petal parabolic parameters of z2+cz^2+c by the Hausdorff-dimension threshold 4/34/3

    Open for about 15 years
  2. Porosity and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets of quadratic rational maps with a Siegel disk and a parabolic fixed point beyond bounded type

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Attainable Hausdorff dimensions of Speiser-class Julia sets: the spectrum (1,2] and the minimum number of singular values

    Open for about 6 years
  4. Hausdorff dimension of Sierpiński carpet Julia sets: always strictly larger than one?

    Open for about 7 years
  5. The largest set of rotation numbers for the Buff–Chéritat perturbative area-preservation property in quadratic dynamics

    Open for about 18 years
  6. Open core of the Avila–Lyubich Feigenbaum Julia set problems: finite invariant geometric measures, the balanced Fibonacci regime, and exact dimension of Feigenbaum Julia sets

    Open for about 22 years
  7. Generalized Sierpiński gasket Julia sets of McMullen maps with unequal exponents (m≠nm\neq n) on the boundary of the Cantor locus

    Open for about 1 year
  8. Is sup⁡f∈Hdim⁡HJ(f)=2\sup_{f\in\mathcal{H}}\dim_H J(f)=2 for every hyperbolic component H\mathcal{H} of the space of rational maps?

    Open for about 7 years
  9. Hausdorff dimensions of Julia sets in the Speiser class S2\mathcal{S}_2: is every value in (1,2](1,2] attained?

    Open for about 5 years
  10. Assouad-type dimensions of Julia sets in the remaining non-hyperbolic regimes: Siegel disks, Herman rings, infinitely renormalizable and positive-area maps

    Open for about 4 years

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