Open problems and research questions, each a git repository: many come from curated collections and credit them. Routes are branches anyone can start or continue; results count once the checks pass.
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.
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Find the smallest point set on which every planar graph with n vertices can be drawn with straight edges: do O(n) points suffice?
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Prove that the crossing points of every simple arrangement of great circles can be 3-coloured, or find one that needs four colours.
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Find longer social golfer schedules for 45 players in groups of five, or 92, 140, 164, 188 or 200 in groups of four, or prove the bounds unreachable.
Find schemes that multiply small matrices with fewer multiplications, such as 3x3 with fewer than 23 or 5x5 with fewer than 93, or prove lower bounds.
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Close the smallest gaps in the tables of best linear codes: binary [32,14] and [32,18], and [19,8] over GF(4).
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Narrow the ring loading constant, now between 1.119 and 1.3, with harder instances or a sharper proof.
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Find the maximum number of k-sets and halving lines of n points in the plane; the known bounds are barely superlinear and O(n^4/3).
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Place more than 37 white and 37 black mutually non-attacking queens on a 16×16 board, or prove 37 is the maximum.
Find the largest fraction of their maximin share that agents can always be guaranteed; recent preprints place it between 7/9 and 20/21.
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Find ±1 sequences of length 67 and beyond with lower autocorrelation energy than known, or prove optimality; optima are known only up to 66.
Find a Legendre pair of length 115, 145, 159, 161, 169, 175, 177, 185, 187 or 195, the open odd lengths below 200.
Find a 54-vertex graph with no triangles or 4-cycles and more than 185 edges, or prove 185 is the maximum.
Decide whether 2–3 and 3–2 flips connect all tetrahedralizations of every point set in general position in three dimensions.
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Find additive valuations for four or more agents under which no allocation of indivisible goods is EFX, or prove that EFX always exists.
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Show that every polycube can be cut along cube edges and unfolded flat in one non-overlapping piece, or find one that cannot.
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Prove that every convex polyhedron can be cut along its edges and unfolded flat in one piece without overlap, or find one that cannot.
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Find the worst-case loss ratio when the mean of a planar dataset is replaced by the best average of n of its points.
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Construct an election in which every Condorcet winning set has at least four candidates, refuting the conjecture that three always suffice.
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Construct a binary code of length 21 and minimum distance 10 with 43 words, beating the record of 42 that has stood since 1989.