Mergelyan's theorem with zero-free polynomials
Decide whether functions holomorphic and zero-free inside a compact set can be uniformly approximated by polynomials with no zeros on the set.
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Decide whether functions holomorphic and zero-free inside a compact set can be uniformly approximated by polynomials with no zeros on the set.
Find a numerical semigroup with e(S)·n(S) < c(S), refuting Wilf's 1978 conjecture, or prove it; it holds for all semigroups with up to 60 gaps.
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.
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.
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].
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.
Decide whether, for every t, some number appears as a binomial coefficient C(n,k) with k ≤ n/2 in exactly t ways.
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}.
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.
Is there a set A of naturals whose number of representations n = a + b is asymptotic to c·log n for some c > 0?
Show that a linear equation that some finite colouring of the integers avoids can be avoided with a number of colours depending only on its length.
Show that a real number x for which both 2^x and 3^x are integers must itself be an integer.
Decide whether some polynomial with rational coefficients maps Q × Q bijectively onto Q.
Prove that for infinitely many primes p, the number p − 2 has an odd number of prime factors counted with multiplicity.
Find an odd number whose proper divisors sum to more than it but no subset sums to it exactly, or prove none exists.
Find a finite set of congruences with distinct odd moduli that covers every integer, or prove that none exists.
Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Prove that the Liouville function takes the same sign on arbitrarily long blocks of consecutive integers.
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.
Prove that n‖nα‖‖nβ‖ gets arbitrarily close to 0 for every pair of real numbers α and β.
Decide whether some composite number n has Euler's totient φ(n) dividing n − 1, as every prime does.
Beat Lehmer's 1.17628 with an integer polynomial of smaller Mahler measure above 1, or prove the measures stay away from 1.
Lower the proven upper bound 7.10186 on the irrationality measure of π, which is conjectured to equal 2.
Find 8 or more points in the plane, no three on a line and no four on a circle, with all pairwise distances integers.
Give an algorithm that, for h between 2^90 and 2^100, quickly finds an imaginary quadratic field with class number exactly h.
Is there a dense set of points in the plane whose pairwise distances are all rational? Expected no, known only conditionally.
Show that if every large integer is a sum of two elements of A, some integers have arbitrarily many such representations.
Show that 4/n is a sum of three unit fractions with distinct denominators for every n > 2, or find a counterexample.
Find n > 24 such that m + τ(m) ≤ n + 2 for every m < n, where τ counts divisors, or prove that none exists.
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.