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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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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.
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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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Find how much space a randomized streaming algorithm needs to approximate the longest increasing subsequence within a constant factor.
Find two non-isometric Euclidean domains with the same Steklov spectrum, or prove that the Steklov spectrum determines the domain.
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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].
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.
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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Find the smallest output dimension in which two quantum channels violate additivity of minimum output entropy; it lies between 2 and 182.
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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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.
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Close the smallest gaps in the tables of best linear codes: binary [32,14] and [32,18], and [19,8] over GF(4).
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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.
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Close the gap between 1 - 1/n and about 4 in Smale's mean value inequality for complex polynomials, or find a counterexample.
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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.
Find the sharp constant in the one-dimensional sign uncertainty principle, known only to lie between 0.2025 and 0.3216.
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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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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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Decide whether O(log M/ε²) copies of an unknown quantum state suffice, in every dimension, to estimate M given measurement probabilities to accuracy ε.
Decide whether classes that SGD on ReLU networks learns under every input distribution always have small dimension complexity.
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Characterize the spectra that force every bipartite state with those eigenvalues to be separable, and decide whether a PPT test suffices.
Narrow the ring loading constant, now between 1.119 and 1.3, with harder instances or a sharper proof.
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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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