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247 research topics · 1651 questions
Spectral asymptotics of elliptic operators and the Weyl-Berry conjecture3 questions
Classification of generator-remainder behaviours for meromorphic continuation of the renewal transform in Koch-snowflake fractal sprays
Open for about 2 yearsConverse spectral problem for fractal strings with regularly varying gauge functions
Open for about 29 yearsLattice-case eigenvalue counting asymptotics for Laplacians on generalized Sierpiński carpets
Open for about 16 years
Irreducible decomposition of differential algebraic varieties8 questions
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 yearsDefinability of primality for radical differential ideals and the generalized Ritt problem (Harrison-Trainor–Klys–Moosa Conjecture 1.1)
Open for about 18 yearsThe generalized Ritt problem: computing the essential prime components of a radical differential ideal
Open for about 53 yearsThe Ritt problem: algorithmic containment of prime differential ideals and essential prime decomposition of radical differential ideals
Open for about 90 yearsCompleteness of projective differential algebraic varieties: classification, the zero-dimensional test reduction, and the constant Kolchin polynomial question
Open for about 12 yearsDeciding strong irreducibility of ascending chains and computing prime decompositions of perfect ideals of differential-difference polynomials
Open for about 17 yearsSmall 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 yearsThe Jacobi bound conjecture for prime differential ideals presented by generators
Open for about 161 years
Trivial strongly minimal sets over differentially closed fields8 questions
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
Geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets that fail -categoricity: classification beyond arithmetic groups
Strong minimality and geometric triviality of generic differential equations (Conjectures 1.5 and 1.7 of DeVilbiss–Freitag)
Are geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets in differentially closed fields unimodular? (Nagloo's Conjecture 4.1)
Non--categorical geometrically trivial strongly minimal sets in beyond arithmetic Fuchsian groups (Casale–Freitag–Nagloo, Question 2.15)
Statement : binary algebraic independence of the solutions of a general planar algebraic vector field
Ax-Schanuel for the first Painlevé equation
Algebraic independence of Painlevé transcendents at non-generic parameter values
Weiss finite local primitive graph conjecture10 questions
Existence of locally- graphs with nontrivial third iterated local kernel
Open for about 12 yearsThe Weiss conjecture for locally primitive graphs with almost simple or product action local type
Open for about 48 yearsThe 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 yearsIs every semiprimitive transitive permutation group graph-restrictive? (the converse implication of the Potočnik–Spiga–Verret conjecture)
Open for about 15 yearsUniform 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 yearsTornier's finiteness conjecture for discrete groups acting on trees with semiprimitive local action and an involutive inversion
Open for about 6 yearsGraph-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 yearsBounding vertex-stabilisers in finite vertex-transitive graphs: the Weiss, Praeger, and PSV conjectures
Open for about 48 yearsThe Weiss conjecture for primitive local actions of almost simple, simple diagonal, and product action type
Open for about 48 yearsThe 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
Determine the automorphism group of the rank- Witt algebra (equivalently the polynomial automorphism group ) for
Open for about 54 yearsRota--Baxter operators beyond the homogeneous block-diagonal class and Novikov--Poisson structures on the full transposed Poisson algebra
Open for less than 1 yearCentral extensions, derivations, and automorphisms of multi-copy semi-direct sums of the Witt algebra with its intermediate series modules
Open for about 2 yearsNon-surjective local and 2-local automorphisms of simple generalized Witt algebras with non-finitely generated grading group
Open for about 6 yearsAutomorphism 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
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 yearsThe minimal positive realization problem: characterizing the minimal dimension of positive state-space realizations
Open for about 30 yearsCanonical representation of general phase-type distributions of order four and higher
Open for about 17 yearsMinimal-Norm Phase-Type Representations and the Minimal Maier Parameter Beyond Order Two
Open for about 27 yearsEfficient identification of all equivalent representations of Coxian phase-type distributions: permutation feasibility and complexity
A computable upper bound on the triangular order of phase-type distributions with real poles
Open for about 35 years
Weinstein conjecture7 questions
The Weinstein conjecture for closed contact manifolds of dimension at least five
Open for about 47 yearsThe multiplicity and elliptic-orbit conjectures for arbitrary Reeb flows on the standard contact sphere
Open for about 36 yearsThe Weinstein conjecture in exact cotangent bundles: closed characteristics on compact contact-type hypersurfaces
Open for about 47 yearsCharacterizing the open contact manifolds that satisfy the Weinstein conjecture
Open for about 32 yearsStrong Weinstein conjecture in dimension three: homologically trivial weighted cycles of closed Reeb orbits (Abbas–Cieliebak–Hofer conjecture)
Open for about 21 yearsInvariant Reeb orbits of strict contactomorphisms: Mazzucchelli's generalized Weinstein conjecture
Open for about 11 yearsThe Weinstein conjecture for closed contact manifolds of dimension at least five
Open for about 47 years
Stable equivalence conjecture7 questions
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 yearStable-equivalence classification, scalar problems, and the Auslander–Reiten conjecture for self-injective algebras of polynomial growth
Open for about 16 yearsCardinality 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 yearsAuslander–Reiten conjecture on stable equivalences: invariance of the number of non-projective simple modules
Open for about 31 yearsCompleting 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 yearsThe Auslander–Reiten conjecture for stable equivalences: preservation of non-projective simple modules and the gluing-of-idempotents characterization
Open for about 31 yearsConditional closure of stable equivalences of Morita type under tensor products, and completeness of the syzygy-algebra invariant
Open for about 11 years
Seymour's second neighborhood conjecture4 questions
The unresolved density regimes for Seymour's second neighbourhood conjecture on : the critical case and the regime
Open for about 2 yearsCharacterizing the -forcing graphs and the Second Neighborhood Conjecture for oriented graphs missing them
Open for about 5 yearsSeymour'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 yearsSeymour's and Sullivan's second-neighbourhood conjectures for oriented split graphs and multipartite tournaments
Open for about 3 years
Hilbert's 16th problem6 questions
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 yearsRealizable 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 yearsThe second part of Hilbert's sixteenth problem: finiteness and value of the Hilbert number for planar polynomial vector fields
Open for about 126 yearsThe monomial-count variant of Hilbert's 16th problem: bounds for the Hilbert monomial number and the Newton-polygon bound on periodic annuli
Open for about 6 yearsOpen 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 yearsRefined 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
Explicit reciprocity laws for Hilbert symbols over higher-dimensional local fields at the prime 2
Open for about 41 yearsRealizing 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 yearsThe second reciprocity law for Pablos Romo's 3-cocycle symbols on a curve over a discretely valued field
Open for about 20 yearsThe residue-characteristic-2 case of Shafarevich-style explicit formulas for the Hilbert pairing on complete higher-dimensional fields
Open for about 28 yearsExtending K-theoretic flag-symbol reciprocity to arithmetic bases: realizing Hilbert reciprocity over
Open for about 11 yearsExplicit reciprocity laws for formal Drinfeld modules without the congruence hypothesis, and their extension to higher local fields
Open for about 4 yearsObstruction-free regimes for th-degree power-residue reciprocity laws from Brauer-group exact sequences
Open for about 2 yearsThe two-dimensional Contou-Carrère symbol: adelic two-dimensional class field theory
Open for about 13 yearsGeneralizing the supplement to Scholz's reciprocity law: an odd-prime analogue and higher-power reciprocity for the primes above 2 in
Open for about 19 years
Hilbert's 12th problem: construction of the maximal abelian extension of number fields9 questions
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 yearsNondegeneracy of the half-system matrix and the completion of Koo–Yoon's explicit construction of class fields over cyclotomic fields
Open for about 14 yearsExtended Hecke class-field inclusions and missing ring class field data in the measured-foliation approach to Hilbert's 12th problem
Open for about 1 yearStark's unit conjecture for the theta-null generators of class fields of primitive CM fields: integrality of the theta-null Stark units
Open for about 20 yearsHilbert's twelfth problem for totally real fields: complex-analytic generation of the maximal abelian extension
Open for about 126 yearsAlgebraicity, reciprocity law, and Kronecker limit formula for higher elliptic units over number fields with exactly one complex place
Open for about 2 yearsThe Charollois–Darmon conjecture: Stark unit arguments as periods of Hilbert Eisenstein series for ATR fields (Conjecture 4.1, 2008)
Open for about 17 yearsExplicit analytic generation of ray class fields beyond imaginary quadratic fields: Siegel–Ramachandra invariants over imaginary biquadratic and CM fields
Open for about 13 yearsCharacterizing 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
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 yearsGeometric 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 yearsMajda's ODE-type singularity conjecture for linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic systems
Open for about 42 yearsSharp structural characterization of small-data global classical solvability for one-dimensional quasilinear hyperbolic systems with source terms
Open for about 14 yearsLinear degeneracy and shock-free smooth evolution of the fully coupled Einstein equations in generalized-harmonic and fully constrained formulations
Open for about 21 yearsMajda's conjecture on ODE-type singularity formation for one-dimensional quasilinear hyperbolic systems with linearly degenerate characteristic fields
Open for about 42 yearsGlobal 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
Valid combined inverse-probability-of-treatment and intensity weighting under informative censoring
Open for about 2 yearsDependence-robust evaluation of survival models under dependent censoring: misspecification robustness and stable estimation of the latent event-censoring copula
Open for about 1 yearIdentifiable 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
Asymptotic stability of one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger solitary waves beyond the spectral assumptions: internal modes and edge resonances
Open for about 3 yearsAsymptotic stability of well-separated multi-solitons for the 1D -supercritical NLS in the full range
Open for about 1 yearGlobal attraction to the solitary manifold for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation coupled to a nonlinear oscillator
Open for about 19 yearsGlobal attraction to stationary orbits for the coupled Maxwell–Schrödinger system (Komech's Conjecture A, Eq. (12.1)/(15.3))
Open for about 7 yearsClassification 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 yearsAsymptotic stability of small solitary waves for the one-dimensional NLS with an attractive delta potential in the mass-subcritical regime
Open for about 8 yearsSoliton resolution conjecture for the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation on
Open for about 18 years
Jacobian conjecture6 questions
Deciding the component dichotomy for the Jacobian-one varieties : automorphism versus counterexample components and the two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture
Open for about 86 yearsThe two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture and the four-dimensional Hessian conjecture over fields of characteristic zero
Open for about 87 yearsInverse degree bounds for polynomial automorphisms with bounded-rank Jacobian perturbation (Question 5.9 of Yan–de Bondt)
Open for about 13 yearsThe Jacobian conjecture in two variables (Jacobian mate formulation)
Open for about 87 yearsThe two-dimensional Jacobian conjecture: invertibility of planar Keller maps
Open for about 87 yearsConvergence of the compositional inverse and the noncommutative Jacobian conjecture in Popescu's theory of free biholomorphic functions on
Open for about 14 years
Deficiency problems of meromorphic functions3 questions
Lower-order range of the Barsegian–Yang exceptional-value relations for a-points with bounded derivative
Open for about 22 yearsVolume 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 yearsEquality 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
Valiron's common Borel direction problem for meromorphic functions of finite positive order
Open for about 98 yearsConverse of the angular-characteristic characterization of Borel radii for algebroid functions in the unit disc
Open for about 17 yearsConverse of the sectorial-characteristic characterization of Borel radii of algebroid functions in the unit disk
Open for about 17 yearsCommon Borel directions of a function of finite positive order and its q-difference operator
Open for about 6 years
Main conjecture of Iwasawa theory7 questions
The full Iwasawa Main Conjecture for the -adic -function over totally real fields in the non-split case
Open for about 5 yearsTwo-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 yearThe p-integral anticyclotomic Iwasawa main conjecture for GL(n)×GL(n+1) Rankin–Selberg motives over CM fields
Open for about 1 yearBenois's Main Conjecture: the Iwasawa main conjecture for Selmer complexes attached to a regular submodule
Open for about 12 yearsGreenberg's conjecture for elliptic curves over : vanishing of the Iwasawa -invariant of Selmer groups over the cyclotomic -extension
Open for about 27 yearsThe Iwasawa main conjecture for CM fields: equality of the Fitting ideal of Selmer modules with Katz's analytic -adic -function
Open for about 48 yearsUnconditional Iwasawa Main Conjecture for ordinary semistable elliptic curves over global function fields: removing the unramified μ-minimality hypothesis
Yang-Baxter equation8 questions
Liouville integrability of the noncommutative Yang–Baxter maps of KdV, NLS and DNLS type on division rings
Open for about 2 yearsExistence of simple involutive non-degenerate set-theoretic solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation of every cardinality
Open for about 2 yearsClassifying all spectral-parameter-dependent Yang–Baxter operators from associative algebra structures: the Nichita–Parashar functional-equation system
Open for about 20 yearsClassifying 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 yearsExplicit associators and the quasi-Hopf structure of the quantum algebras of set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equation solutions from (skew) braces
Open for about 4 yearsClassification of unitary Yang–Baxter operators: the Galindo–Rowell program of classification, localization, and virtual abelianness of braid images
Open for about 16 yearsBijectivity 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 yearsClassification 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
Optimal sequential designs with the dual goal of sequential testing and post-test estimation via the Fisher-information decomposition
Open for about 4 yearsStatistical Inference for the Logistic Limit Law of Random Sums and Statistics Constructed from Samples with Random Sizes
Open for about 1 yearPreservation of the fixed-sample-size asymptotic distribution of maximum likelihood estimators under sample size re-estimation
Open for about 7 yearsExtending nonparametric two-stage fixed-width confidence intervals to heavy-tailed, weaker-moment, and dependent data regimes
Open for about 6 yearsGeneral characterization of asymptotic normality for estimation after a group sequential trial
Open for about 8 yearsStrong 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
Convergence and error control for the nonlinear Green's function short-time expansion of wave equations with absolute-value nonlinearities
Open for about 18 yearsWhat is the distributional Green's function of the second-order nonlinear ODE for the transcendental nonlinearities , , , , , , , that fail the generalized multiplicativity property?
Open for about 8 yearsError 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
Multiplicative closure of the standard monomials for the Temperley–Lieb algebras of types B and D
Open for about 8 yearsFiniteness and termination of Gröbner–Shirshov bases over commutative semirings
Open for about 14 yearsFiniteness and Noetherianity of Gröbner–Shirshov bases for commutative dialgebras beyond finite generating sets and Noetherian coefficients
Open for about 7 yearsAlgorithmic completeness of the conformal-module Gröbner–Shirshov calculus for finitely presented Poisson algebras: termination, confluence, and the word problem
Open for about 7 yearsSpeciality of finite torsion-free Lie conformal (super)algebras via Gröbner–Shirshov bases with arbitrary locality functions
Open for about 26 yearsGröbner–Shirshov basis of the universal pre-associative envelope of a brace algebra (Kolesnikov's Problem 3)
Open for about 10 yearsCohn's conjecture: non-speciality of the Cohn Lie algebra over truncated polynomial algebras for every prime characteristic
Open for about 63 yearsDo 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
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 yearsCompleting 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 yearsTwo-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 yearsHall 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 yearsCompleting the Hall-algebra realization of quantum 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 yearsHopf structures and Drinfeld doubles for -affine quantum groups, and their extension beyond type
Open for less than 1 yearPerverse-sheaf realization of Bridgeland's Hall algebra beyond Dynkin quivers and comparison of its IC basis with canonical bases
Open for about 13 yearsExplicit 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 yearsDual 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
Classification of wandering finite gaps in degree- invariant laminations: the higher-degree extension of Thurston's No Wandering Triangle theorem
Open for about 41 yearsSimply connected wandering continua of post-critically finite rational maps: the Cui–Peng–Tan conjecture
Open for about 12 yearsWandering continua in Julia sets of rational maps: are arcs and Jordan curves the only possible types?
Open for less than 1 yearExistence 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 yearSharpness of the extended Fatou–Shishikura inequality: saturation of the critical budget by wandering branch continua in all degrees
Open for about 16 yearsAlways full wandering continua for post-critically finite rational maps
Open for about 12 years
Efficient parametrization and implicitization methods for rational algebraic surfaces4 questions
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 yearsNormal (surjective) parametrizations of rational algebraic surfaces: existence characterization and effective computation
Open for about 35 yearsBirational reparametrization of rational varieties of arbitrary dimension and rational surfaces of arbitrary codimension
Open for about 3 yearsComputing 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
Reconstruction of modular tensor categories from strongly rational vertex operator algebras (Möller–Rayhaun, Conjecture 3.11)
Open for about 23 yearsUniqueness 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 yearsExistence of simple rational vertex operator algebras over positive-characteristic fields with more than one simple module
Open for less than 1 yearZhu's conjecture: finite-dimensionality of the -algebra of every rational vertex operator algebra
Open for about 30 yearsVertex 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
Equality for the Davenport constant of finite abelian groups and growth of the gap
Open for about 57 yearsThe -th Davenport constants and their inverse problems for finite abelian groups of rank at least
Open for about 34 yearsSharp uniform bounds for the Davenport constant of rank-three finite abelian groups: Zakarczemny's Conjecture , improving the explicit constant , and the exact determination of
Open for about 57 yearsThe exact value of the Davenport constant of homogeneous groups: the conjecture
Open for about 57 yearsSharp 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 yearsDavenport's constant for finite abelian groups of rank three
Open for about 57 yearsZero-sum subsequences of length over finite abelian groups: the Gao–Han–Peng–Sun conjecture and the remaining rank-three cases
Open for about 12 yearsDavenport constant of for rank : settling Conjecture 1 of Biswas–Mazumdar and deciding across the family
Open for about 2 years
Minimization problem of the maximum of finitely many quadratic functions7 questions
Exact feasibility in the bit model for the CDT problem and quadratic programs with a fixed number of quadratic constraints
Open for about 11 yearsExactness of SDP relaxations of general QCQPs beyond the polyhedral multiplier-cone regime
Open for about 6 yearsRelaxing 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 yearsHidden convexity and exact semidefinite descriptions for minimizing the maximum of finitely many quadratic functions
Open for about 85 yearsCharacterizing hidden convexity of quadratic systems: when is the joint image convex for ?
Open for about 85 yearsConvexity of joint numerical ranges of three or more quadratic functions
Open for about 27 yearsCounting and characterizing local non-global minimizers of the two-constraint homogeneous quadratic program (QQ2)
Open for about 5 years
The finitistic dimension conjecture6 questions
Injective generation for finite dimensional algebras: do injective modules generate the unbounded derived category?
Open for about 25 yearsExistence 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 yearsThe Finitistic Dimension Conjecture for Artin Algebras and its Equivalent Extension-Transfer Reformulations
Open for about 66 yearsLeft–right symmetry of finiteness of the finitistic dimension for finite dimensional algebras
Open for about 66 yearsExtending the idempotent-reduction bound for finitistic dimension from primitive to arbitrary idempotents
Open for about 7 yearsSecond Finitistic Dimension Conjecture: finiteness of the little finitistic dimension of Artin algebras
Open for about 66 years
Dirac operator in unitary representations6 questions
Are all Dirac series members of weakly fair -modules? (Conjecture 1.3 of Dong–Wong)
Open for about 6 yearsDirac series of for general
Open for about 6 yearsDirac series of real reductive Lie groups: classifying unitary modules with nonzero Dirac cohomology beyond the tempered case
Open for about 11 yearsUnitary representations with nonzero Dirac cohomology of complex Lie groups: the Barbasch–Pandžić conjecture and its remaining complex E8 case
Open for about 16 yearsRemoving the integrality hypothesis in the improved Helgason–Johnson bound for the real exceptional group
Open for about 4 yearsDirac 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
The (Christodoulou) inextendibility of the Cauchy horizon of generic rotating vacuum black holes
Open for about 17 yearsPenrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture: general proof or generic counterexample in classical 3+1 general relativity
Open for about 57 yearsSingular inner Cauchy horizons for the Einstein vacuum equations: asymptotics and extendibility of the self-similar vacuum naked singularities
Open for about 6 yearsGeroch–Traschen-regular extension of the curvature blow-up dichotomy for timelike geodesic incompleteness
Open for about 3 yearsNonlinear fate of the near-extremal Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter Cauchy horizon: mass inflation versus weak extendibility
Open for about 7 yearsDynamical second law of black hole mechanics in higher-derivative gravity and the second-law route to weak cosmic censorship
Open for about 3 yearsGeneric-data status of the Christodoulou–Chruściel () strong cosmic censorship conjecture for the spherically symmetric Einstein–Maxwell–charged-Klein–Gordon system with positive cosmological constant
Open for about 2 yearsGlobal visibility and genericity of Tipler-strong naked singularities in spherically symmetric perfect-fluid collapse
Open for about 6 years
Nagata conjecture10 questions
The pluripotential versions of the Nagata conjecture in : Nivoche's conjectures (P1)–(P3) on general point configurations and their equivalent algebraic forms
Open for about 67 yearsNagata's conjecture: the multipoint Seshadri constant of the projective plane at general points and full Kähler packings by equal balls
Open for about 67 yearsNagata's conjecture for ten general points: emptiness of the homogeneous linear systems below slope
Open for about 67 yearsGeneral versus very general points for multi-point Seshadri constants on surfaces
Open for about 22 yearsMaximality of the Seshadri constant of an n-cyclic covering of the projective plane for n > 9
Open for about 20 yearsFiniteness of : the canonical degree conjecture for curves on smooth projective surfaces
Open for about 12 yearsThe valuative Nagata conjecture: minimality of very general divisorial valuations of the projective plane
Open for about 12 yearsNagata's conjecture for linear systems of plane curves at non-square numbers of general points
Open for about 67 yearsNagata-type lower-bound conjectures for Waldschmidt constants of general unions of linear subspaces
Open for about 67 yearsExact Waldschmidt constants for singular loci of complex reflection arrangements: the Klein configuration
Open for about 9 years
Integer flow conjecture7 questions
Boundedness of the real flow roots of bridgeless graphs (Jacobsen–Salas Conjecture 1.9: for )
Open for about 15 yearsUniform connectivity thresholds for nowhere-zero flow reconfiguration
Open for less than 1 yearLifting nowhere-zero -flows to integer -flows on signed graphs without long barbells for even (Problem 3.14 of Lu–Luo–Schubert–Steffen–Zhang)
Open for about 7 yearsThe Jaeger–Linial–Payan–Tarsi conjecture (Strong 3-Flow Conjecture): is every 5-edge-connected graph -connected?
Open for about 33 yearsTutte's 4-flow conjecture: nowhere-zero 4-flows in bridgeless graphs with no Petersen minor
Open for about 60 yearsBouchet's 6-flow conjecture for flow-admissible signed graphs
Open for about 43 yearsTutte's 3-Flow Conjecture
Open for about 54 years
Nakayama conjecture and generalized Nakayama conjecture9 questions
The Strong Nakayama Conjecture for Artin algebras: total Ext-vanishing into the regular module forces the zero module
Open for about 35 yearsThe 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 yearsThe Finitistic Dimension Conjecture for Artin Algebras
Open for about 66 yearsThe Generalized Nakayama Conjecture for artin algebras: does every indecomposable injective occur in the minimal injective resolution of the algebra?
Open for about 51 yearsThe Gorenstein bimodule conjecture: is a finite-dimensional algebra selfinjective exactly when its regular bimodule is Gorenstein projective?
Open for about 6 yearsThe Nakayama conjecture: must every Artin algebra of infinite dominant dimension be self-injective?
Open for about 67 yearsThe Nakayama conjecture: must every finite-dimensional algebra of infinite dominant dimension be self-injective?
Open for about 67 yearsExplicit formulae for the finitistic dominant dimension of Nakayama algebras that are Morita algebras
Open for about 10 yearsEquality cases in dominant-dimension comparisons along Frobenius bimodules and Frobenius extensions
Open for about 7 years
Fractal dimension of Julia sets10 questions
Rigorous classification of real two-petal parabolic parameters of by the Hausdorff-dimension threshold
Open for about 15 yearsPorosity 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 yearsAttainable Hausdorff dimensions of Speiser-class Julia sets: the spectrum (1,2] and the minimum number of singular values
Open for about 6 yearsHausdorff dimension of Sierpiński carpet Julia sets: always strictly larger than one?
Open for about 7 yearsThe largest set of rotation numbers for the Buff–Chéritat perturbative area-preservation property in quadratic dynamics
Open for about 18 yearsOpen 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 yearsGeneralized Sierpiński gasket Julia sets of McMullen maps with unequal exponents () on the boundary of the Cantor locus
Open for about 1 yearIs for every hyperbolic component of the space of rational maps?
Open for about 7 yearsHausdorff dimensions of Julia sets in the Speiser class : is every value in attained?
Open for about 5 yearsAssouad-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