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Physics

691 research topics · 2739 questions

No Particle Production4 questions
  1. No-particle-production classification for supersymmetric two-dimensional theories with multiple superfields or extended supersymmetry

  2. Completing the classification of two-dimensional Lagrangians with no tree-level particle production: multi-field seeds, non-Toda solutions, and quantum persistence

  3. Integrable structure of the Drinfeld-twisted Landau-Lifshitz models: Lax pair, multi-particle S-matrix factorization, and the quantum boost operator

  4. Loop-level viability and general extension of the omega-regulated massless S-matrix for integrable sigma-models

Infinite Product Expressions2 questions
  1. Rigorous analytic structure of the double-scaled SYK partition function: high-temperature coefficient asymptotics, zeros of Z(it), and the infinite-product representation

  2. Closed product representation of the residual determinant of the square-lattice Ising model on the open L×M rectangle

Infinite Lattice Limit2 questions
  1. Exact solution of the Mangazeev-Bazhanov-Sergeev integrable 3D lattice model: convergence of the partition function, transfer-matrix spectrum, and rank-size duality

  2. Infinite-volume mean-field and large-mass limits of interacting Bose gases beyond the cluster-expansion regime

Infinitely many conserved quantities1 questions
  1. All-or-nothing dichotomy of local conserved quantities in Hermitian spin chains beyond the parity-symmetric spin-1/2 nearest-neighbor class

Disordered Critical Phase1 questions
  1. Full disorder-averaged negativity spectrum of the partial transpose in the random singlet phase

    Open for about 6 years
Does a Pentaquark State Exist?4 questions
  1. Existence and spectrum of fully-heavy pentaquarks QQQQQˉQQQQ\bar{Q}: a rigorous five-body determination of stable bound states

    Open for about 5 years
  2. Unambiguous spin–parity and structure assignment for the strange hidden-charm pentaquark candidates Pcs(4338)P_{cs}(4338) and Pcs(4459)P_{cs}(4459)

    Open for about 5 years
  3. Two-body strong decays and experimental search channels of the predicted compact isovector hidden-charm-singly-strange pentaquark states Pcs+(uusccˉ)P_{cs}^{+}(uusc\bar{c})

    Open for less than 1 year
  4. Existence of narrow light pentaquark baryons: the S=+1S=+1 Θ+(1540)\Theta^+(1540) and the S=−2S=-2 exotic candidates

    Open for about 29 years
Interactions between rotating matter and gravitational fields4 questions
  1. Frame dragging by rotating matter shells and gravitational-wave pulses beyond perturbation theory: the domain of validity of ω=2Lz/R3\omega = 2L_z/R^3

    Open for about 8 years
  2. Rotating thin shells in (2+1)-dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetimes: the overspinning regime and admissible matter models

    Open for about 11 years
  3. Gravitational field of the spinning Q-lump cosmic string beyond the weak-field, winding-N=2 approximation

    Open for about 18 years
  4. The causal-mass criterion for perfect cosmic inertial dragging: proving, disproving, or quantifying the Braeck–Grøn–Farup conjecture in general relativity

    Open for about 9 years
Kinetic Studies of Cellular Regulation and Signaling Pathways10 questions
  1. Quantitative reconstruction of the Waddington cell-fate landscape and attractor dynamics of gene regulatory networks from empirical high-dimensional expression data

    Open for about 10 years
  2. Quantitative mechanistic origin of variability in the p53-Mdm2 oscillatory DNA-damage response, and of its delay-period-damping relationship

    Open for about 20 years
  3. Information-thermodynamic bounds on biochemical signal transduction beyond the linear-Gaussian model: nonlinear and time-delayed feedback networks, backward transfer entropy, and experimental verification

    Open for about 11 years
  4. Molecular mechanism of BMP time-integration by SOX2 in human pluripotent stem cells

    Open for about 2 years
  5. Quantitative encoding of TCR signal dynamics in the temporal structure of transcription in vivo: affinity-to-transcription mapping, tonic signal mechanisms, and the time-frequency mathematics of the Tocky system

    Open for about 8 years
  6. Open problem: the mechanistic and functional basis of intermittent FGF4/ERK oscillations in mouse embryonic stem cells

    Open for about 4 years
  7. Mechanisms of RTK-level antagonistic control and dynamic decoding of pulsatile Erk signaling in epithelial proliferative control

    Open for about 7 years
  8. Causal status and context dependence of the time-integrator relationship between ERK/Akt activity dynamics and stochastic cell division

    Open for about 2 years
  9. Mechanistic basis of spatiotemporally defined RAS–ERK signals dictating cell fate in MCF-7 mammary epithelial cells: control of sustained ERK phosphorylation and compartmental sufficiency for differentiation

    Open for about 10 years
  10. Quantitative mapping of β-catenin signal dynamics to proliferation, Gadd45γ-dependent arrest, and apoptosis in differentiating neural stem cells

    Open for about 5 years
Organization Mechanisms of the Cytoskeleton7 questions
  1. Molecular motors and the extensile-contractile force balance governing bipolar versus multipolar spindle self-organization in Xenopus egg extracts

    Open for about 5 years
  2. Quantitative mechanical mapping from actin-network architecture to microtubule plus-end dynamics and spindle assembly

    Open for about 8 years
  3. Molecular-scale origins of the coarse-grained active liquid crystal description of the human mitotic spindle

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Quantitative physical account of actin-mediated registry of non-muscle myosin II filament stacks

    Open for about 9 years
  5. Molecular basis and functional consequences of vimentin association with the actomyosin cortex in mitosis

    Open for about 7 years
  6. Molecular and physical mechanism of Eg5-organized antiparallel microtubule bundling in the human metaphase spindle

    Open for less than 1 year
  7. Robustness of growth-induced kinetic trapping in cytoskeletal filament networks to nucleation, motors, turnover, and filament type

    Open for about 2 years
Realizing the Standard Model in string theory10 questions
  1. Completing the heterotic Z6\mathbb{Z}_6-II orbifold MSSM: all-orders supersymmetric vacua and full phenomenological viability of the Buchmüller–Hamaguchi–Lebedev–Ratz model

    Open for about 20 years
  2. Dynamical completion of the Z4RZ_{4R} R-parity construction from Z12−IZ_{12-I} orbifold compactification of the SO(32) heterotic string

    Open for about 5 years
  3. String-loop completion of the minimal Z3\mathbb{Z}_3 orbifold Pati–Salam quiver: anomaly-canceling terms, Fayet–Iliopoulos coefficients, and the symmetry-breaking scales

    Open for about 19 years
  4. Physical Yukawa couplings in heterotic Calabi–Yau compactifications: singular loci, non-standard-embedding bundles, and multi-parameter moduli

    Open for about 17 years
  5. Local-to-global completion of the intersecting D-brane Standard Model with a bulk leptonic U(1)U(1)

    Open for about 4 years
  6. Standard-like heterotic-string vacuum with a low-scale anomaly-free Z′: explicit x-sector construction and low-energy validation

    Open for about 12 years
  7. Completing the small Dirac neutrino mass mechanism of Casas–Ibáñez–Marchesano in a globally consistent type IIA orientifold

    Open for about 2 years
  8. Completing the D3-brane Standard Model: compact Calabi-Yau embedding, moduli stabilization, and realistic soft supersymmetry breaking for the del Pezzo construction

    Open for about 21 years
  9. Perturbative vacuum stability and dilaton stabilization of the three-generation standard-like model from the tachyonic ten-dimensional heterotic-string vacuum

    Open for about 6 years
  10. Explicit slope-stable hidden-sector bundle with vanishing five-brane class for the minimal heterotic standard model

    Open for about 20 years
Quantitative Study of Cosmic String Production in String Theory6 questions
  1. Open questions for small-tension cosmic strings from D3 branes wrapped on deformed singularities: cosmological production, world-sheet theory, and observational distinguishability

    Open for about 17 years
  2. First-principles microphysical and multi-scale dynamics inputs for firm quantitative constraints on scaling cosmic superstring networks

    Open for about 15 years
  3. The loop-formation size distribution and modelling systematics of the cosmic-superstring stochastic gravitational-wave background

    Open for about 21 years
  4. Self-consistent dynamics and radiation of axion-emitting cosmic superstring networks

    Open for about 2 years
  5. Reliable gravitational production rate of perturbative string states at the end of inflation and during reheating

    Open for about 18 years
  6. Uncertainty-controlled Kaluza-Klein emission constraints on cosmic superstrings: loop-population inputs, KK-mode lifetimes, and compactifications beyond the Klebanov-Strassler throat

    Open for about 14 years
Initial Condition Problem in String Cosmology7 questions
  1. Nonperturbative holographic dual of the two-dimensional string cosmology (c=1 Liouville times c=25 Liouville worldsheet)

    Open for about 3 years
  2. Global viability of extended pre-big-bang cosmology as the source of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background

    Open for about 1 year
  3. Decisive multi-band gravitational-wave test of pre-big-bang string cosmology: breaking the (beta, z_s, z_d, z_sigma) degeneracy and bounding the dilaton-growth exponent

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Covariant embedding and string-theory origin of all-order α′\alpha' O(d,d)-invariant bouncing string cosmologies, and their primordial perturbations

    Open for about 3 years
  5. Experimental test of pre-big bang cosmology through its relic gravitational-wave background: multi-band confirmation or exclusion of the string parameter space

    Open for about 10 years
  6. Non-singular string cosmology from all-order α′ corrections: first-principles foundations and physical viability

    Open for about 7 years
  7. Completing the finite-matter alternative string-landscape cosmology: Einstein-equation consistency with nonzero pressure, observational constraints on the inhomogeneity scale, and the big-crunch and light-trapping fate

    Open for about 14 years
Unresolved Problems in Modern Electron Microscopy2 questions
  1. Reliable in-situ nanorobotic manipulation, probing, and integrated measurement and fabrication of nanostructures inside the scanning electron microscope

    Open for about 22 years
  2. Deterministic atom-by-atom fabrication with the electron beam of an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope

    Open for about 8 years
Line Conservation4 questions
  1. Matrix product ansatz for the eight-vertex model and the XYZ spin chain

    Open for about 20 years
  2. Exact spectrum of the dilute oriented loop model: general branching rules into dense SU(n+1) modules and mixed-parity scaling dimensions

    Open for about 10 years
  3. Limit shapes and metastability in the bounded 15-vertex model with non-domain-wall boundary conditions

    Open for about 8 years
  4. Yang-Baxter algebra of the n-state mixed vertex model with the line-conservation constraint on the square lattice

    Open for about 2 years
Can pp and ph Interactions be Unified in Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Problems?4 questions
  1. Consistent pairing channel and retardation effects in relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings

    Open for about 16 years
  2. Coupled self-consistent treatment of induced-interaction vertex corrections and self-energy effects in the proton 1S0^1S_0 pairing gap of neutron-star matter

    Open for about 7 years
  3. Quantitative microscopic consistency of the 1S0^1S_0 pairing gap in finite nuclei from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics: medium-polarization (induced-interaction) corrections, particle-hole/particle-particle effective-mass consistency, and missing collective correlations

    Open for about 14 years
  4. Consistent many-body calculation of the 1S0{}^{1}S_{0} pairing gap and superfluid transition temperature of neutron matter: screening beyond the Landau approximation, induced three-neutron forces, and self-energy effects

    Open for about 8 years
Relativistic Quantum Information3 questions
  1. Constructing the spacetime-local update maps ΨS\Psi_S of the polyperspective formalism for concrete physical systems (detectors, quantum fields, curved spacetimes)

    Open for about 1 year
  2. Energy accounting of relativistic quantum communication: generality of the vanishing communication-specific energy cost and the particle-creation contribution in dynamical spacetimes

    Open for about 4 years
  3. Resource costs of unconstrained summoning: efficient protocols, lower bounds, and the quantum-versus-classical token comparison

    Open for about 8 years
What New Physics Arises from Introducing Exchange Terms in Relativistic Mean-Field Theory?7 questions
  1. The fourth-order symmetry energy S4(ρ)S_4(\rho) of neutron-rich nuclear matter: exchange-channel structure across covariant density functionals, kinetic short-range-correlation content, and neutron-star crust consequences

    Open for about 8 years
  2. Microscopic magnitude and density dependence of the in-medium screened pion tensor force in relativistic Hartree-Fock energy functionals

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Charge symmetry breaking from ω\omega-ρ0\rho^0 mixing in covariant density functional theory: exchange terms, density dependence, EDF mapping, and the hypernuclear extension

    Open for about 1 year
  4. Completing deformed relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory: tensor couplings in shell evolution and beyond-mean-field correlations with explicit Fock terms

    Open for about 15 years
  5. Unquantified meson retardation and rho-tensor correlations in relativistic Hartree-Fock compact-star matter, and their joint treatment with hyperon/Delta exchange contributions to the equation of state, maximum masses, and direct-Urca thresholds

    Open for about 17 years
  6. Self-consistent tensor-force constraints in the relativistic Hartree-Fock theory: RHF + particle-vibration coupling and the global strength of the pion-exchange tensor

    Open for about 5 years
  7. Determining the isovector-scalar channel of the relativistic spin-orbit interaction from single-particle data

    Open for about 10 years
Quadrant Partition Function4 questions
  1. Three-dimensional integrability for the multispecies ASEP: a tetrahedron-equation route to the Zamolodchikov–Faddeev algebra and the Macdonald connection

  2. Orthogonality of the dual symmetric functions of the half-space six-vertex model (Conjecture 5.5 of Garbali–de Gier–Mead–Wheeler)

  3. Direct asymptotic analysis of coloured stochastic vertex models via their Plancherel spectral theory, and extension of the coloured formalism

  4. Rigorous corner transfer matrix-Virasoro character correspondence for Yang-Baxter integrable models, and unusual corrections to scaling for valence bond entanglement in massive spin chains

Physical Limits of Information Processing and Quantum Thermodynamics9 questions
  1. Quantum-statistics, degeneracy, asymmetric-insertion, and non-quasistatic extensions of the demonless quantum Szilard engine

    Open for about 7 years
  2. Thermodynamic uncertainty relation and efficiency–constancy bounds for periodically driven quantum heat engines beyond the slow-driving, weak-coupling regime

    Open for about 5 years
  3. Combined second-law accounting for discrete quantum feedback control: minimum controller work cost

    Open for about 18 years
  4. Extending the rigorous efficiency-versus-time trade-off for cyclic quantum heat engines to non-lattice baths and baths with divergent heat capacity

    Open for about 9 years
  5. Minimal excess thermodynamic cost of quantum operations: tightness, attainability, and the exceptional spectral-symmetry cases

    Open for about 10 years
  6. Rigorous minimal-work bounds for reliable information-bearing switches and memories as a function of error probability and temperature

    Open for about 13 years
  7. Completing the thermodynamic theory of the pointer-measurement quantum engine: strong-interrogation dynamics, measurement-cost accounting, and physical realization

    Open for about 7 years
  8. Pareto trade-offs of finite-time quantum information engines with the energetic and temporal costs of classical meter readout and reset included

    Open for about 1 year
  9. Tightness and attainability of the Landauer erasure bound in the quantum regime under finite time, finite-size baths, and non-Markovian or nonequilibrium environments

    Open for about 24 years
Star–Triangle Transformation3 questions
  1. Determining the zero-temperature exponents of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass from the iterated star-triangle evolution

    Open for about 5 years
  2. Exact spectrum of the Floquet evolution operator of star-triangle integrable quantum circuits

    Open for about 3 years
  3. Full resummation of the direct triangular block condition for the symmetric-group permutation model

    Open for less than 1 year
Formation and Evolution of Galaxies6 questions
  1. Distinguishing early dark energy from baryonic physics as the origin of the JWST high-redshift galaxy excesses

    Open for about 4 years
  2. Cold-stream survival, additional physics, and angular-momentum delivery from the circumgalactic medium to galaxies

    Open for less than 1 year
  3. Robustly mapping simulated cold gas accretion onto quasar absorption-line observations: end-to-end synthetic spectra and quantitative confrontation with the z ≈ 0.2 corotation observations

    Open for about 7 years
  4. Making the circumgalactic-atmosphere regulator framework quantitative: contraction-triggered black-hole feedback, stability of contracted atmospheres, total feedback-energy measurement, phase-plane diagnostics, and the redshift evolution of the star-formation-efficiency peak

    Open for about 2 years
  5. Making the Milky Way's merger-driven three-phase formation picture definitive: temporal ordering of the disk phases, universality of the chemical bimodality, and simulation tests of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus scenario

    Open for about 2 years
  6. The physical origin of stellar bars at redshifts z>2z > 2: formation conditions and reproduction in cosmological simulations

    Open for about 2 years
Formation and Evolution of Galactic Core Black Holes5 questions
  1. Cosmic evolution and physical origin of the supermassive black hole–host galaxy scaling relations: what sets their zero point and scatter

    Open for about 26 years
  2. Intrinsic evolution of the MBHM_{\rm BH}–σ∗\sigma_\ast relation at intermediate redshift, or a non-evolving MBHM_{\rm BH}–M∗M_\ast coupling: which host property fundamentally couples to supermassive black hole mass?

    Open for about 21 years
  3. Formation and early growth of the first massive black holes: the z=8.50z=8.50 UNCOVER broad-line AGN and the faint red AGN population at z>7z>7

    Open for about 25 years
  4. Physical validation of the central-molecular-cloud-fed growth scenario for supermassive black holes: origin and gigayear persistence of the quasi-universal CMC parameters

    Open for about 1 year
  5. Did supermassive black holes form by direct collapse? The conditions, incidence, seed masses, and observational signatures of the direct-collapse channel

    Open for about 20 years
Determinant Representation2 questions
  1. Absolute normalization and completion of the determinant representation for scalar products of Bethe vectors in the 8-vertex model

    Open for about 45 years
  2. Fisher–Hartwig and degenerate-border asymptotics of bordered Toeplitz determinants: the critical and high-temperature next-to-diagonal Ising correlations

Row-to-Row Transfer Matrix2 questions
  1. Generalized R-matrix (quantum inverse scattering) formulation of the Alcaraz-Lazo interacting vertex models and vertex-model realizations of hard-core integrable chains

    Open for about 19 years
  2. Yang–Baxter integrability of the 3D quantum crystal-melting model: Boltzmann weights, commuting transfer matrices for the Kagome lattice, and reconstruction from integrable descendant vertex models

    Open for about 18 years
Halo Phenomena in Deformed Nuclei7 questions
  1. Constructing the full next-to-leading-order Hamiltonian of the short-range effective theory for single-neutron halo nuclei with a deformed core (11^{11}Be and 17^{17}C)

    Open for less than 1 year
  2. Nuclear magnetism in weakly bound deformed nuclei: robustness of the time-odd unbound-to-bound mechanism in 31^{31}Ne and its global consequences for exotic nuclei

    Open for about 2 years
  3. Experimental test of the predicted triaxial one-neutron pp-wave halos in 40,42^{40,42}Al from reaction observables

    Open for about 3 years
  4. Threshold soft E1E1 strength of the deformed halo nuclei 31^{31}Ne and 37^{37}Mg: experimental extraction and microscopic continuum theory for configuration and deformation assignment

    Open for about 16 years
  5. Establishing the deformation-driven two-neutron halo mechanism at the fluorine neutron drip line: 29^{29}F and 31^{31}F

    Open for about 5 years
  6. Systematic chart-wide assessment of triaxial-deformation effects on nuclear halo formation in neutron-rich nuclei

    Open for about 5 years
  7. Do deformation-enabled neutron halos exist in nuclei heavier than 37^{37}Mg? The near-N=50N=50 candidates 71,73,75^{71,73,75}Cr and 77^{77}Fe, and the lighter candidate 53^{53}Ar

    Open for about 9 years
Searching for Glueballs4 questions
  1. Glueball–flavour-singlet-meson mixing in Nf=1N_f=1 QCD

    Open for about 19 years
  2. Quantitative decay phenomenology of the lightest vector glueball: absolute widths, quarkonium mixing, and robustness of the predicted branching-ratio hierarchy

    Open for about 10 years
  3. The composition of the scalar mesons near 1.7 GeV: are a0(1710)a_0(1710) and f0(1710)f_0(1710) conventional quark–antiquark states, and does f0(1710)f_0(1710) contain the lightest glueball?

    Open for about 30 years
  4. Light isoscalar tensor mesons: the f2(1810)/f2(1950) puzzle and the identification of the 2++ glueball

    Open for about 14 years
Scanning Probe Acoustic Microscopy of Subsurface Imaging4 questions
  1. Applicability envelope and mode-design rules for multifrequency AFM subsurface imaging: scaling of contrast and lateral resolution with overlayer thickness and matrix modulus

    Open for about 10 years
  2. Quantitative, depth-controlled subsurface compositional mapping of soft matter by trimodal (multifrequency) atomic force microscopy

    Open for about 12 years
  3. Quantitative reconstruction of deeply buried features from scattering-contrast GHz-ultrasound subsurface atomic force microscopy

    Open for about 6 years
  4. Quantitative detection physics, sensitivity limits, and calibration of thickness resonance acoustic microscopy (SNTRAM) for subsurface nanometrology

    Open for about 9 years
Unitarity and Crossing Symmetry4 questions
  1. Crossing-symmetric dual S-matrix bootstrap and analytic cross-section bounds in d>2d>2: can manifestly crossing-symmetric dispersion relations yield rigorous (possibly stronger-than-Froissart) bounds?

  2. Physical realizability of two-particle quasi-elastic (2QE) amplitudes under full multi-particle unitarity

  3. Exact-unitarity dual formulation of the 3+1-dimensional S-matrix bootstrap: closing the primal-dual duality gap and the Karplus double-discontinuity domain

  4. Crossing symmetry and entanglement beyond massive 2→22\to2 SU(N)SU(N) scattering: gapless theories, higher-point amplitudes, unequal internal spaces, and further quantum resources

General Hard-Square Unsolved Problems2 questions
  1. Completing the high-activity rod expansion of the hard-square lattice gas: the exact O(z−2)O(z^{-2}) three-rod term, convergence control, and the three-dimensional hard-cube extension

  2. Explicit convergence constants and higher-dimensional extensions for hard-square strip-entropy approximation

General Ising Model3 questions
  1. Complexity classification of the complex-valued Ising model on bounded-degree graphs in the intermediate annulus

    Open for about 5 years
  2. D-finiteness and exact solvability of the three-dimensional Ising partition function: the Guttmann–Enting non-solvability conjecture and the joint satisfiability of the six necessary conditions

    Open for about 30 years
  3. Determining the asymptotic relaxation and mixing times of the worm process for the Ising model on critical boxes in Z3\mathbb{Z}^3

    Open for about 11 years
A Holographic Theory of a Universe10 questions
  1. An exact holographic dual of de Sitter space: existence, identity, and consistency

    Open for about 25 years
  2. Microscopic foundation of the holographic-equipartition law for the emergence and expansion of cosmic space

    Open for about 14 years
  3. Exact perturbation spectra, reheating history, and the ultraviolet cutoff of holographic inflation (Nojiri–Odintsov–Saridakis model)

    Open for about 7 years
  4. First-principles replica-path-integral derivation of the bilayer entropy prescription and the two-screen holographic encoding of closed FRW cosmologies

    Open for about 2 years
  5. Foundational open issues in holographic cyclic cosmology: the future-event-horizon infrared cutoff, the Come Back Empty hypothesis, and observational consistency

    Open for about 7 years
  6. Holographic dual of FRW cosmologies from magnetic-flavor uplifts of AdS/CFT: microscopic junction-state counting and the time-dependent cutoff field theory

    Open for about 15 years
  7. Open defining structure of the holographic theory for general spacetimes: Hilbert-space organization, the strengthened covariant entropy bound, and state selection

    Open for about 9 years
  8. Necessity and first-principles boundary formulation of the Lorentzian (vev-reality) classicality condition in dS/CFT

    Open for about 10 years
  9. Completing the holographic realization of braneworld cosmology with end-of-the-world branes: realistic expansion, gravity localization beyond the adiabatic approximation, CFT observables behind the horizon, stable top-down realizations, and quantum simulation

    Open for about 7 years
  10. Robustness of apparent-horizon area quantization and entropy-area scaling from quantum cosmology beyond the closed-FLRW radiation/dust minisuperspace

    Open for about 11 years
One-Dimensional Ising Correlation Functions2 questions
  1. Analytic origin of the Fisher–Huse autocorrelation exponents in the one-dimensional long-range Ising model

    Open for about 7 years
  2. Exact two-time correlation and response functions of the 1D Glauber-Ising model on the finite-length semi-open chain

    Open for less than 1 year
One-Dimensional Ising Model1 questions
  1. Uniqueness versus multiplicity of low-temperature Gibbs states for the one-dimensional long-range Ising ferromagnet under structured external fields

    Open for about 19 years
One-Dimensional Ising Free Energy and Magnetization2 questions
  1. Exact fixed-magnetization partition functions and Helmholtz fluctuation-induced forces beyond one dimension and beyond the Gaussian fixed point

    Open for about 4 years
  2. An explicit injective mapping between magnetization sectors at fixed energy in the one-dimensional Ising chain

    Open for less than 1 year
Exact Solution of One-Dimensional Quantum Spin Chain Systems with Arbitrary Boundary Fields3 questions
  1. Exact solutions and thermodynamics of higher-rank D-series quantum spin chains with generic non-diagonal integrable boundary fields

    Open for about 21 years
  2. Single-sum basic-hypergeometric form for the general higher-spin six-vertex K-matrix elements

    Open for about 7 years
  3. Exact thermodynamic limit of the open one-dimensional Hubbard chain with boundary magnetic fields away from half filling

    Open for about 12 years
One-Dimensional Configuration Sums3 questions
  1. A direct bijective proof of the odd/even minimal-excludant equidistribution with sqrank and rerank, and a succinct partition statistic for p2,2(n)p_{2,2}(n)

  2. Generalized Rogers–Ramanujan identities for level-two string functions of simply laced Lie algebras: exceptional and Dynkin-index-two sectors, generalized Slater identities, and the RSOS lattice-model derivation

  3. Theta-quotient complexity, odd levels, and singular specializations in the double-sum evaluation of A1(1)A_1^{(1)} string functions at arbitrary integral levels

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