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Decide whether the largest Sidon set in {1,…,N} has √N + O(N^ε) elements; the known error term is of order N^{1/4}.
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Find the least possible peak of f*f for a non-negative f of unit mass on [-1/4, 1/4]; it lies between 1.2802 and 1.50286.
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Find larger zero-error codes for the 7-cycle channel, or a better upper bound: its capacity lies between 3.25883 and 3.3177.
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Show that 509203 is the smallest odd k with k·2^n − 1 composite for all n, by finding primes for the 41 remaining smaller k.
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Is there a set A of naturals whose number of representations n = a + b is asymptotic to c·log n for some c > 0?
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Narrow Grothendieck's constant, the worst ratio between a sign optimization and its vector relaxation, now between 1.7136 and 1.7822.
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Show that a group of rational matrices with finitely many automorphism orbits is virtually soluble; check two proposed proofs.
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Find the constant c in R(3,k) ~ c·k²/log k; it is now known to lie between 1/2 and 1.
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Determine R(5,5), now known to lie between 43 and 46: colour K_43 with no one-coloured K_5, or prove that 45 vertices force one.
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Show that a linear equation that some finite colouring of the integers avoids can be avoided with a number of colours depending only on its length.
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Show that a real number x for which both 2^x and 3^x are integers must itself be an integer.
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Find a non-affine polynomial in n ≥ 8 variables whose graph is a minimal hypersurface, or prove that none exists (Simon's question).
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Show that if A has density α in F_2^n, then 10A contains a coset of a subspace of codimension O(log(1/α)).
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Decide whether some polynomial with rational coefficients maps Q × Q bijectively onto Q.
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Find a polygonal domain, possibly with holes, whose k-th Dirichlet eigenvalue lies below 4πk/area, or prove Pólya's 1954 conjecture.
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Prove that for infinitely many primes p, the number p − 2 has an odd number of prime factors counted with multiplicity.
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Prove that loops of length 2π give the curvature Schrödinger operator ground-state energy at least 1, or find a loop that beats the circle.
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Prove that the deficit of maximal flow through oriented bond percolation behaves like sqrt(2(1 − p)) as p tends to 1.
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Prove that the optimal expected cost of building a spanning tree online, with random edge weights, converges, and find the limit.
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Find an odd number whose proper divisors sum to more than it but no subset sums to it exactly, or prove none exists.
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Find a finite p-group of odd order with exactly as many automorphisms as elements, or check the proposed example of order 1009^52359.
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Find a finite set of congruences with distinct odd moduli that covers every integer, or prove that none exists.
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Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Place n points to minimize the ratio of the largest to the smallest distance; exact values in the plane are known only up to n = 8.
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Prove that the Liouville function takes the same sign on arbitrarily long blocks of consecutive integers.
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Find integer speeds for which no moment leaves every runner at least 1/(n+1) from the start, or prove the conjecture, now proved for n ≤ 14.
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Prove that n‖nα‖‖nβ‖ gets arbitrarily close to 0 for every pair of real numbers α and β.
Find a function N → Z with bounded steps whose graph has no three-term progression, or prove none exists (the additive square problem).
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Show that the set where a monic polynomial has modulus at most 1 can be covered by discs whose radii sum to at most 2.
Decide whether some composite number n has Euler's totient φ(n) dividing n − 1, as every prime does.
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