The mean of the Tracy–Widom distribution
Find a closed form for the mean μ ≈ −1.7710868074 of the Tracy–Widom distribution of the largest GUE eigenvalue.
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The critical mass of the Townes soliton
Find a closed form for the critical mass N_c ≈ 11.7008965246 of the Townes soliton, the collapse threshold of the 2D cubic NLS.
How can we tell when an ecosystem is near a tipping point?
Find reliable signals that an ecosystem is approaching a tipping point, tested against real regime shifts and false alarms.
Open question (2013 agenda)per Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions, 2026-10-20
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Doubly exponential growth of 3-uniform Ramsey numbers
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}.
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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Three mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 10
Find three mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 10 or prove none exist; more generally, pin down N(n) for the smallest open orders.
Openper MOLS table, Handbook of Combinatorial Designs (with updates by J. H. Dinitz), 2026-10-20
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Three-colouring arrangements of great circles
Prove that the crossing points of every simple arrangement of great circles can be 3-coloured, or find one that needs four colours.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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The Thomson problem
Find or prove the minimum-energy arrangements of N electrons on a sphere; optimality is proved only for a few small N.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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Can submodularity be tested with polynomially many queries?
Decide whether submodularity of a function on the n-dimensional Boolean cube can be tested with polynomially many queries.
Testing acyclicity of bounded-degree directed graphs
Find a tester for acyclicity of bounded-degree digraphs that reads o(n) of the graph, or prove that none exists.
The Tammes problem and the table of spherical codes
Spread N points on a sphere to maximize the smallest angle: beat an entry of Cohn's table or prove optimality, as for 15 points.
Openper Kissing numbers and spherical codes (Henry Cohn), 2026-10-20
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Stabilizer rank of tensor powers of the T state
Decide whether the number of stabilizer states needed to write n copies of the T magic state is bounded by a polynomial in n.
The sunflower conjecture
Prove that every family of more than c^n sets of size n contains three sets that pairwise meet in the same core.
Open, $1000 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$1000 prize
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The sum-product problem for integers
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.
Open, $250 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$250 prize
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Sums of three cubes: 114, and a fourth way to write 3
Write 114, the smallest open case, as a sum of three integer cubes, or find a fourth representation of 3 as a sum of three cubes.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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The sum of square roots problem
Bound how close two sums of k square roots of integers up to n can be, and decide whether such sums can be compared in polynomial time.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Open cases in the table of strongly regular graphs
Decide whether strongly regular graphs exist for the open parameter sets in Brouwer's table, starting with (88, 27, 6, 9).
Openper Parameters of strongly regular graphs (A. E. Brouwer), 2026-10-20
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A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear programming
Find an algorithm for linear programming whose number of arithmetic steps is polynomial in the numbers of variables and constraints alone.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Approximating the longest increasing subsequence in a stream
Find how much space a randomized streaming algorithm needs to approximate the longest increasing subsequence within a constant factor.
Steklov-isospectral Euclidean domains
Find two non-isometric Euclidean domains with the same Steklov spectrum, or prove that the Steklov spectrum determines the domain.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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An explicit Steiner system with t ≥ 6
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.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Are ecology's classic patterns statistical rather than ecological?
Test whether species-abundance and species-area patterns follow from simple statistical constraints, and what ecology adds beyond them.
Open question (2013 agenda)per Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions, 2026-10-20
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How can staple crops be biofortified to fight hidden hunger?
Raise iron, zinc and provitamin A in staple crops, and show that the extra nutrients reach and benefit the people who eat them.
Open question (2023 agenda)per 100 essential questions for the future of agriculture, 2026-10-20
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Square-difference-free sets: the Furstenberg–Sárközy exponent
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.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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The sparse ruler constant
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].
Is plant growth limited by photosynthesis or by the capacity to grow?
Determine whether plant growth is limited by photosynthesis or by cell division and expansion, and how climate change shifts the balance.
Open question (2023 agenda)per One hundred important questions facing plant science, 2026-10-20
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Sorting X + Y: sorting all pairwise sums faster than n² log n
Sort all n² pairwise sums of two sets of n numbers in o(n² log n) time, faster than general-purpose sorting allows.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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How can nitrogen emissions from farm soils be cut most effectively?
Find which fertiliser and soil management strategies cut nitrous oxide and other nitrogen emissions from farm soils most, without losing yield.
Open question (2023 agenda)per 100 essential questions for the future of agriculture, 2026-10-20
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Social golfer schedules that may or may not exist
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.
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.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Smallest output dimension for a minimum-output-entropy violation
Find the smallest output dimension in which two quantum channels violate additivity of minimum output entropy; it lies between 2 and 182.