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Step functions and finite sets that tighten autocorrelation and sum–difference constants (placeholder)
Colourings that raise lower bounds, and SAT certificates that lower upper bounds (placeholder)
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.
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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}.
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Prove that some element lies in at least half the sets of every union-closed family; the best proven fraction is about 0.38.
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Determine the largest fraction of triples on n points with no 4-set covered by all its triples; Turán conjectured 5/9.
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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.
Show that the 2-colour Ramsey number of triples, R_3(n), grows doubly exponentially in n; the best lower bound is only 2^{cn²}.
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Find three mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 10 or prove none exist; more generally, pin down N(n) for the smallest open orders.
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Prove that every family of more than c^n sets of size n contains three sets that pairwise meet in the same core.
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Show that every finite set of integers has nearly |A|² distinct sums or nearly |A|² distinct products; false over the reals since 2026.
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Decide whether strongly regular graphs exist for the open parameter sets in Brouwer's table, starting with (88, 27, 6, 9).
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Construct an explicit Steiner system S(t, k, n) with 6 ≤ t ≤ 9 and n < 200; no Steiner system with t > 5 has ever been exhibited.
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Find the growth exponent of the largest subset of {1,...,N} with no square difference, now known to lie between 0.7580758 and 1 - c.
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Find the limit of F(N)/√N, where F(N) is the fewest marks on a ruler of length N that measures every distance; it lies in [1.56, √3].
Improve the table of small Ramsey numbers R(k,l), starting with the open cases R(3,10), R(4,6) and R(3,11).
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Decide whether, for every t, some number appears as a binomial coefficient C(n,k) with k ≤ n/2 in exactly t ways.
Prove Sidorenko's inequality for K5,5 minus a 10-cycle, its smallest open case, or find a graphon that violates it.
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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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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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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 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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Construct, for arbitrarily large n, more than 1.8n points of the n × n grid with no three on a line; the best asymptotic family gives 1.5n.
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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.
Find spherical t-designs on the 2-sphere with fewer points than known and prove they exist; t = 19 and t = 21 are the frontier.
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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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