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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.
Cut the electricity use and cost of plant factories and vertical farms through better lighting, climate control, crops and renewable energy.
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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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Learn how plants respond when heat, drought, salinity, pollutants and pathogens strike together, and breed crops that tolerate the combinations.
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Predict how glacier loss and permafrost thaw will change the amount and timing of runoff and groundwater in cold regions.
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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.
Narrow the constant β in the length β√n of the shortest tour through n random points, rigorously between 0.6277 and 0.8810.
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Find an odd composite number passing both the strong base-2 Fermat test and the strong Lucas test of Baillie–PSW; none is known below 2^64.
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Show that an automorphism of a finite group inverts at most as many elements as the sum of the irreducible character degrees.
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Prove that a nucleus of charge Z can bind at most Z + C electrons, with a constant C independent of Z.
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Find a pure state of eight four-level systems whose every four-party marginal is maximally mixed, or prove that none exists.
Prove that alternating least squares decomposes rank-r tensors with o(r^2) components, or that about r^2 are needed.
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Show that every bounded low-degree polynomial on the Boolean cube with non-negligible variance has a variable of polynomially large influence.
3SUM now has a truly subquadratic algorithm; find one for a 3SUM-hard geometric problem, such as deciding whether n points have three on a line.
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Better configurations for Heilbronn’s triangle problem in the unit square, n = 11–14
Buildable coils whose field matches a target plasma boundary (placeholder)
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