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.
Problems
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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.
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.
Small two-colour Ramsey numbers
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).
Openper Small Ramsey Numbers (Radziszowski, dynamic survey DS1), 2026-10-20
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How many multiplications do small matrix products need?
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.
Openper Yet another catalogue of fast matrix multiplication algorithms, 2026-10-20
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Open cells in the tables of best linear codes
Close the smallest gaps in the tables of best linear codes: binary [32,14] and [32,18], and [19,8] over GF(4).
Openper Bounds on the minimum distance of linear codes (codetables.de), 2026-10-20
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Do six small cubic equations have infinitely many integer solutions?
Prove that each of six cubic equations z² + y²z + x³ + … = 0 of size at most 24, the smallest open cases, has infinitely many integer solutions.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Smale's mean value conjecture
Close the gap between 1 - 1/n and about 4 in Smale's mean value inequality for complex polynomials, or find a counterexample.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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The site percolation threshold of the square lattice
Find a closed form for the site percolation threshold of the square lattice, p_c ≈ 0.5927460508; bond percolation has p_c = 1/2.
Singmaster's conjecture on repeated binomial coefficients
Decide whether, for every t, some number appears as a binomial coefficient C(n,k) with k ≤ n/2 in exactly t ways.
The sign uncertainty principle in one dimension
Find the sharp constant in the one-dimensional sign uncertainty principle, known only to lie between 0.2025 and 0.3216.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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Sidorenko's conjecture for K5,5 minus a 10-cycle
Prove Sidorenko's inequality for K5,5 minus a 10-cycle, its smallest open case, or find a graphon that violates it.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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The largest Sidon set in {1, …, N}
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}.
Open, $1000 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$1000 prize
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An autocorrelation constant for Sidon sets
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.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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The Shannon capacity of the 7-cycle
Find larger zero-error codes for the 7-cycle channel, or a better upper bound: its capacity lies between 3.25883 and 3.3177.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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The ring loading constant
Narrow the ring loading constant, now between 1.119 and 1.3, with harder instances or a sharper proof.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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The Riesel problem
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.
Openper Formal Conjectures, 2026-10-20
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Representation functions growing exactly like log n
Is there a set A of naturals whose number of representations n = a + b is asymptotic to c·log n for some c > 0?
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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The real Grothendieck constant
Narrow Grothendieck's constant, the worst ratio between a sign optimization and its vector relaxation, now between 1.7136 and 1.7822.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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A rational Diophantine septuple
Find seven distinct nonzero rationals such that the product of any two, plus one, is a rational square; sextuples are known, septuples are not.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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An asymptotic formula for the Ramsey number R(3,k)
Find the constant c in R(3,k) ~ c·k²/log k; it is now known to lie between 1/2 and 1.
Open, $250 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$250 prize
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The Ramsey number R(5,5)
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.
Openper Small Ramsey Numbers (Radziszowski, dynamic survey DS1), 2026-10-20
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Quantum capacity of the depolarizing and qubit Pauli channels
Determine the quantum capacity of qubit Pauli channels; even the depolarizing channel's zero-capacity threshold is only known to lie between 0.064956 and 1/12.
Seven qubits protecting a qutrit: does a ((7,3,3)) code exist?
Find a three-dimensional subspace of seven qubits that corrects any single-qubit error, or prove that no ((7,3,3)) code exists.
Additivity of minimum output entropy for qubit channels
Prove or refute that minimum output entropy is additive when one of two channels is an arbitrary, possibly non-unital, qubit channel.
The quantum MDS conjecture
Prove that stabilizer quantum MDS codes on qudits of dimension q have length at most q²+1, apart from one even-q family, or find a longer one.
Prime-representing polynomial systems in five variables
Find a small system of integer polynomials in five variables whose common zeros over ℕ give x₁ + 2 equal to exactly the primes.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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A prescribed class-group structure for imaginary quadratic fields
Find three squarefree D > 10^40 for which the class group of Q(√−D) modulo 2-torsion is (Z/n)² × Z/n³, with three different n.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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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).
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Pólya's conjecture for Dirichlet eigenvalues
Find a polygonal domain, possibly with holes, whose k-th Dirichlet eigenvalue lies below 4πk/area, or prove Pólya's 1954 conjecture.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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