Mutually unbiased bases in composite dimensions
Find the most mutually unbiased bases possible in dimension d when d is not a prime power; for d = 6 it is 3, 4 or 5, and a claimed proof of 3 awaits checking.
Problems
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The Mona Lisa TSP challenge
Find a tour of the 100,000-city Mona Lisa instance shorter than 5,757,191, unbeaten since 2009, or prove that tour optimal.
Open, $1,000 prizeper Waterloo TSP pages, 2026-10-20$1,000 prize
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Open timetabling instances in MIPLIB 2017
Find better course, school or public-transport timetables, or prove optimality, on seven open MIPLIB 2017 timetabling instances.
Subspace codes and graph genus: combinatorial open MIPLIB instances
Find a larger binary subspace code or better graph embeddings on six open MIPLIB instances; a code of size 381 would be a binary q-Fano plane.
Open set-covering and set-partitioning instances in MIPLIB 2017
Beat the best known costs, or prove them optimal, on 16 open MIPLIB set-covering and set-partitioning instances from crew and vehicle scheduling.
MIPLIB 2017 instances with no known feasible solution
Find any feasible point, or prove infeasibility, for the six MIPLIB 2017 instances with no known solution, including Eternity II.
The Erdős minimum overlap problem
Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Estimating metric TSP cost below factor 2 with sublinear queries
Estimate the shortest tour of an n-point metric within a factor below 2 from o(n²) distance queries, or show it cannot be done.
The best approximation ratio for maximin share allocations
Find the largest fraction of their maximin share that agents can always be guaranteed; recent preprints place it between 7/9 and 20/21.
Openper TCS Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Spreading points evenly: the max-to-min distance ratio
Place n points to minimize the ratio of the largest to the smallest distance; exact values in the plane are known only up to n = 8.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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The best approximation ratio for maximum directed cut
Pin down the best approximation ratio for maximum directed cut, known under the Unique Games Conjecture to lie in [0.87446, 0.87461].
Openper TCS Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Low autocorrelation binary sequences beyond length 66
Find ±1 sequences of length 67 and beyond with lower autocorrelation energy than known, or prove optimality; optima are known only up to 66.
Arbitrarily long runs of equal signs of the Liouville function
Prove that the Liouville function takes the same sign on arbitrarily long blocks of consecutive integers.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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The lonely runner conjecture
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.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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The Littlewood conjecture
Prove that n‖nα‖‖nβ‖ gets arbitrarily close to 0 for every pair of real numbers α and β.
Lipschitz graphs without three-term progressions
Find a function N → Z with bounded steps whose graph has no three-term progression, or prove none exists (the additive square problem).
Openper Ben Green's 100 open problems, 2026-10-20
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Is linear sketching over F2 optimal for one-way XOR communication?
Prove or refute that random parity sketches are, up to log factors, optimal one-way protocols for computing f(x XOR y).
Covering a polynomial lemniscate by discs
Show that the set where a monic polynomial has modulus at most 1 can be covered by discs whose radii sum to at most 2.
Lehmer's totient problem
Decide whether some composite number n has Euler's totient φ(n) dividing n − 1, as every prime does.
Openper Formal Conjectures, 2026-10-20
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Lehmer's Mahler measure problem
Beat Lehmer's 1.17628 with an integer polynomial of smaller Mahler measure above 1, or prove the measures stay away from 1.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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Legendre pairs of length 115 and the other open lengths below 200
Find a Legendre pair of length 115, 145, 159, 161, 169, 175, 177, 185, 187 or 195, the open odd lengths below 200.
Leech trees beyond six vertices
Find an edge-weighted tree on more than six vertices whose pairwise path lengths are exactly 1, 2, …, n(n−1)/2, or prove that none exists.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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Lebesgue's universal covering problem
Find the least area of a convex shape that covers every planar set of diameter 1, now known to lie between 0.832 and 0.8440936.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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Are the largest roots of a random polynomial real?
Find the limiting probability that the largest roots of a random polynomial with Gaussian coefficients are all real.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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Density of ones in the Kolakoski sequence
Prove that the self-describing Kolakoski sequence of 1s and 2s has a density of 1s, equal to 1/2.
Openper Formal Conjectures, 2026-10-20
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Kissing numbers
Improve the bounds on kissing numbers in dimensions up to 48, starting with dimension 5, where 40 ≤ τ(5) ≤ 44.
Openper Kissing numbers and spherical codes (Henry Cohn), 2026-10-20
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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.
Unsolvedper FrontierMath: Open Problems, 2026-10-20
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The price of joint differential privacy in linear contextual bandits
Close the gap between regret upper and lower bounds for linear contextual bandits under joint differential privacy.
Openper COLT open problems, 2026-10-20
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The irrationality measure of pi
Lower the proven upper bound 7.10186 on the irrationality measure of π, which is conjectured to equal 2.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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Is the group of interval exchange transformations amenable?
Decide whether the group of interval exchange transformations of the circle is amenable.
Openper AIM Problem Lists, 2026-10-20
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