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Find the maximum number of k-sets and halving lines of n points in the plane; the known bounds are barely superlinear and O(n^4/3).
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Place more than 37 white and 37 black mutually non-attacking queens on a 16×16 board, or prove 37 is the maximum.
Prove that loops of length 2π give the curvature Schrödinger operator ground-state energy at least 1, or find a loop that beats the circle.
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Prove that the optimal expected cost of building a spanning tree online, with random edge weights, converges, and find the limit.
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Decide whether shared randomness and one bit of communication reproduce all projective measurements on every partially entangled qubit pair.
Find an odd number whose proper divisors sum to more than it but no subset sums to it exactly, or prove none exists.
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Find a finite p-group of odd order with exactly as many automorphisms as elements, or check the proposed example of order 1009^52359.
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Find a finite set of congruences with distinct odd moduli that covers every integer, or prove that none exists.
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Construct, for arbitrarily large n, more than 1.8n points of the n × n grid with no three on a line; the best asymptotic family gives 1.5n.
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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.
Find a closed form for the entropy per site of monomer-dimer configurations on the square lattice, h ≈ 0.6627989727.
Pin down the constant c ≈ 0.38 such that every split of {1,…,2N} into equal halves has a difference occurring cN times.
Find spherical t-designs on the 2-sphere with fewer points than known and prove they exist; t = 19 and t = 21 are the frontier.
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Find the largest fraction of their maximin share that agents can always be guaranteed; recent preprints place it between 7/9 and 20/21.
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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.
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Find a closed form for the Madelung constant of rock salt, M ≈ 1.7475645946, the alternating lattice sum of unit charges on Z^3.
Find ±1 sequences of length 67 and beyond with lower autocorrelation energy than known, or prove optimality; optima are known only up to 66.
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.
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Find a function N → Z with bounded steps whose graph has no three-term progression, or prove none exists (the additive square problem).
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Decide whether some composite number n has Euler's totient φ(n) dividing n − 1, as every prime does.
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Beat Lehmer's 1.17628 with an integer polynomial of smaller Mahler measure above 1, or prove the measures stay away from 1.
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Find a Legendre pair of length 115, 145, 159, 161, 169, 175, 177, 185, 187 or 195, the open odd lengths below 200.
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.
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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.
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Improve the bounds on kissing numbers in dimensions up to 48, starting with dimension 5, where 40 ≤ τ(5) ≤ 44.
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Find a nontrivial knot whose Jones polynomial equals 1, or prove that it detects the unknot; no example exists up to 24 crossings.
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Find a closed form for the Ising-class integral C5 = (4/15)∫ t K0(t)^5 dt ≈ 0.6657598002 of Bailey, Borwein and Crandall.
Find 8 or more points in the plane, no three on a line and no four on a circle, with all pairwise distances integers.
Exhibit imaginary quadratic fields whose class groups have record ℓ-rank, such as 3-rank 9 or 5-rank 6, certified by independent forms.
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Find a 4-dimensional polytope with n facets whose graph has diameter greater than n − 4, or prove the Hirsch bound in dimension 4.
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