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Carbery's rectangle problem
Show that an open subset of the unit square with area α contains the corners of an axis-parallel rectangle of area at least cα².
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| 10 | "name": "Ben Green's 100 open problems", |
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| 13 | "curator": "Ben Green", |
| 14 | "poser": "Anthony Carbery, Michael Christ and James Wright", |
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| 16 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
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