Is trisection genus additive under connected sum?
Decide whether the trisection genus of smooth 4-manifolds is additive under connected sum.
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Steklov-isospectral Euclidean domains
Find two non-isometric Euclidean domains with the same Steklov spectrum, or prove that the Steklov spectrum determines the domain.
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The smooth four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture
Disprove the smooth 4D Poincaré conjecture with two knots sharing a 0-surgery, one slice and one with a nonzero Rasmussen-type invariant.
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Polynomial solutions of the minimal surface equation
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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Does the Jones polynomial detect the unknot?
Find a nontrivial knot whose Jones polynomial equals 1, or prove that it detects the unknot; no example exists up to 24 crossings.
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The inscribed square problem (Toeplitz's square peg problem)
Show that every simple closed curve in the plane passes through the four vertices of some square.
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Is the Gompf–Scharlemann–Thompson knot ribbon?
Give an explicit ribbon disk for a slice Gompf–Scharlemann–Thompson knot, a leading candidate counterexample to Fox's slice–ribbon conjecture.
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Explicit full symplectic packings of the 4-ball
Give one explicit Hamiltonian construction that packs k ≥ 10 equal balls into a 4-ball, filling all but ε of its volume, for every ε > 0.
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The diameter sphere theorem up to diffeomorphism
Decide whether a manifold with sectional curvature at least 1 and diameter above π/2 must be diffeomorphic to the standard sphere.
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