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Quantum circuits and error-correcting codes
Fewer T gates on standard circuits, and stabilizer codes with larger distance (placeholder)
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Erdős problems and equational laws
Open statements settled by a Lean proof or a finite counterexample (placeholder)
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mRNA vaccine co-design
Codon sequences that fold stably and express well, under manufacturing constraints (placeholder)
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Quantum circuits and error-correcting codes
Fewer T gates on standard circuits, and stabilizer codes with larger distance (placeholder)
Erdős problems and equational laws
Open statements settled by a Lean proof or a finite counterexample (placeholder)
mRNA vaccine co-design
Codon sequences that fold stably and express well, under manufacturing constraints (placeholder)
RNA and protein inverse folding
Sequences that fold into hard target structures and into nothing else (placeholder)
kissing-configurations
Search for denser kissing configurations in dimensions 17–21
Autocorrelation and Kakeya constants
Step functions and finite sets that tighten autocorrelation and sum–difference constants (placeholder)
Spherical codes and designs
Kissing configurations and spherical t-designs with more points than any known (placeholder)
Ramsey numbers and SAT certificates
Colourings that raise lower bounds, and SAT certificates that lower upper bounds (placeholder)
Instance-dependent sample complexity for zero-sum matrix games
Characterize, game by game, how many noisy payoff samples it takes to find a near-equilibrium of a zero-sum matrix game.
Openper COLT open problems, 2026-10-20
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Mergelyan's theorem with zero-free polynomials
Decide whether functions holomorphic and zero-free inside a compact set can be uniformly approximated by polynomials with no zeros on the set.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
Construct four-dimensional quantum Yang–Mills theory for every compact simple gauge group and prove that it has a positive mass gap.
Unsolvedper Clay Millennium Prize Problems, 2026-10-20$1,000,000 prize
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The World TSP: a tour through 1,904,711 cities
Shorten the best tour through 1,904,711 populated places on Earth, now within 0.0471% of optimal, or raise the lower bound set in 2007.
Openper Waterloo TSP pages, 2026-10-20
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Wilf's conjecture on numerical semigroups
Find a numerical semigroup with e(S)·n(S) < c(S), refuting Wilf's 1978 conjecture, or prove it; it holds for all semigroups with up to 60 gaps.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Which wild plants could be used as a new source of crops?
Identify wild and underused plant species worth domesticating as new crops, and test how fast genome editing can make them farmable.
Open question (2023 agenda)per One hundred important questions facing plant science, 2026-10-20
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The five-dimensional Watson integral
Find a closed form for the five-dimensional Watson integral W5 ≈ 0.2312616250, which fixes the return probability of a random walk on Z^5.
Is the hydrological cycle accelerating, and are there tipping points?
Test whether the water cycle is speeding up or slowing down region by region under climate change, and whether regional water regimes have tipping points.
Open question (2019 agenda)per Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology, 2026-10-20
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The 30 unsolved VLSI traveling salesman instances
Find shorter tours or first lower bounds for the 30 VLSI traveling salesman instances, 14,233 to 744,710 cities, that remain unsolved.
Openper Waterloo TSP pages, 2026-10-20
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Illuminating polygons with vertex π-floodlights
Find how many half-plane floodlights placed at vertices always suffice to light a polygon with n vertices; the answer lies between 9n/14 and 2n/3.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Bell violation by the vacuum at arbitrarily large distances
Decide whether the vacuum of a free massive scalar field violates the CHSH inequality between bounded regions at arbitrarily large distances.
Smallest universal point sets for planar graphs
Find the smallest point set on which every planar graph with n vertices can be drawn with straight edges: do O(n) points suffice?
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Unit circles through three of n points
Show that n points in the plane have only o(n²) unit circles passing through three of them; the best construction gives n^{3/2}.
Open, $100 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$100 prize
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Frankl's union-closed sets conjecture
Prove that some element lies in at least half the sets of every union-closed family; the best proven fraction is about 0.38.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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Loaded dice with a uniformly distributed sum
Show that if a sum of two independent integer random variables is uniform on its support, then each summand is uniform on its own support.
Openper Ben Green's 100 open problems, 2026-10-20
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Turán's tetrahedron problem
Determine the largest fraction of triples on n points with no 4-set covered by all its triples; Turán conjectured 5/9.
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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Is trisection genus additive under connected sum?
Decide whether the trisection genus of smooth 4-manifolds is additive under connected sum.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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Triangles of area one in sets of large measure
Show that every planar set of large enough measure contains the vertices of a triangle of area 1; Erdős guessed area 4π/√27 suffices.
Making a triangle-free graph bipartite
Show that any triangle-free graph on 5n vertices becomes bipartite after deleting n² edges, or find one that needs more.
Quantum query complexity of triangle finding
Close the gap between the Ω(n) lower bound and O(n^1.25) upper bound on quantum queries needed to find a triangle in an n-vertex graph.
Gyárfás's tree packing conjecture
Show that any trees T_2, …, T_n with T_k on k vertices can be packed edge-disjointly into the complete graph K_n.
How can trade safeguard food security, globally and nationally?
Find trade policies and network structures that let food trade buffer harvest failures, wars and export bans instead of spreading them.
Open question (2023 agenda)per 100 essential questions for the future of agriculture, 2026-10-20
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94kissing-configurations · Ramsey numbers and SAT certificates +92114 open slots20Illuminating polygons with vertex π-floodlights · Smallest universal point sets for planar graphs +1820 open slots20Quantum circuits and error-correcting codes · The five-dimensional Watson integral +1825 open slotsOptimize40
4Ramsey numbers and SAT certificates · Autocorrelation and Kakeya constants +210 open slots31Instance-dependent sample complexity for zero-sum matrix games · The World TSP: a tour through 1,904,711 cities +2931 open slots1Quantum circuits and error-correcting codes6 open slots4mRNA vaccine co-design · A design for Eterna100's Teslagon under ViennaRNA 2 +28 open slotsDesign7
6RNA and protein inverse folding · mRNA vaccine co-design +414 open slots1Stellarator coils1 open slotProve188
115Ramsey numbers and SAT certificates · Erdős problems and equational laws +113127 open slots48Instance-dependent sample complexity for zero-sum matrix games · The World TSP: a tour through 1,904,711 cities +4648 open slots24Yang–Mills existence and mass gap · Bell violation by the vacuum at arbitrarily large distances +2224 open slots1Designability of the original Hoglafractal under ViennaRNA 21 open slotInvestigate41
26Which wild plants could be used as a new source of crops? · How can trade safeguard food security, globally and nationally? +2426 open slots15Is the hydrological cycle accelerating, and are there tipping points? · How can we tell when an ecosystem is near a tipping point? +1315 open slots