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Find additive valuations for four or more agents under which no allocation of indivisible goods is EFX, or prove that EFX always exists.
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Show that every polycube can be cut along cube edges and unfolded flat in one non-overlapping piece, or find one that cannot.
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Prove that every convex polyhedron can be cut along its edges and unfolded flat in one piece without overlap, or find one that cannot.
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Find n > 24 such that m + τ(m) ≤ n + 2 for every m < n, where τ counts divisors, or prove that none exists.
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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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Find lim R(k)^{1/k} for the diagonal Ramsey numbers, or even prove that the limit exists; it lies between √2 and 3.8.
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Construct an infinite Sidon set with at least N^{1/2−ε} elements up to N for every ε > 0, or show that none exists.
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Narrow the de Bruijn–Newman constant, which equals 0 exactly when the Riemann hypothesis holds; it is known that 0 ≤ Λ ≤ 0.2.
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Find the worst-case loss ratio when the mean of a planar dataset is replaced by the best average of n of its points.
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Find cheaper routes, or prove optimality, for the 39 X instances of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that are still unsolved.
Count the polyominoes with n cells, known exactly up to n = 70, and pin down Klarner's growth constant, now between 4.0025 and 4.5252.
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Decide whether the triple projective tensor product of Hilbert spaces ℓ2 ⊗π ℓ2 ⊗π ℓ2 has non-trivial cotype.
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Find a Costas array of order 32, the smallest order for which none is known, or prove that none exists.
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Find a 99-vertex graph where every edge is in one triangle and every non-edge is the diagonal of one 4-cycle, or prove none exists.
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Show that some vertex of every convex n-gon has at least ⌊n/2⌋ distinct distances to the other vertices, or find a counterexample.
Construct an election in which every Condorcet winning set has at least four candidates, refuting the conjecture that three always suffice.
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Show that if A, B ⊆ {1,…,N} each have at least N^0.49 elements, then the sumset A + B contains a composite number.
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Find a protocol in which a classical verifier checks any efficient quantum computation with one prover and no cryptographic assumptions.
Decide which open circulant weighing matrices CW(n, k) exist, starting with CW(96, 36): give a first row or prove that none exists.
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Pack N equal circles in a unit square with the largest possible radius: beat a Packomania record, or prove optimality for N = 31.
Pin down the constant γ in the expected longest common subsequence γn of two random binary strings, rigorously between 0.79266 and 0.82628.
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Decide whether 6 or 7 colours are needed to colour the plane so that points at distance 1 always get different colours.
Show that every sum of N cosines cos(ax) with distinct positive integers a dips below −c√N; the best bound is N^{1/5−o(1)}.
Show that every synchronizing automaton with n states has a reset word of length at most (n − 1)².
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Show that an open subset of the unit square with area α contains the corners of an axis-parallel rectangle of area at least cα².
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Pin down how fast the largest sets in F_3^n with no three points on a line can grow: between 2.2203^n and 2.756^n.
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Show that a subgraph of the n-cube with no 4-cycle has at most about half of the cube's edges; the best bound is 0.60318.
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Prove that n! + 1 is a perfect square only for n = 4, 5 and 7, or find a fourth solution.
Decide whether every bipartite graph G has ex(n;G) ~ c·n^α for some α in [1,2), and whether α must be rational.
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Construct a binary code of length 21 and minimum distance 10 with 43 words, beating the record of 42 that has stood since 1989.