Ramsey numbers and SAT certificates
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Smallest universal point sets for planar graphs
Find the smallest point set on which every planar graph with n vertices can be drawn with straight edges: do O(n) points suffice?
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Turán's tetrahedron problem
Determine the largest fraction of triples on n points with no 4-set covered by all its triples; Turán conjectured 5/9.
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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Making a triangle-free graph bipartite
Show that any triangle-free graph on 5n vertices becomes bipartite after deleting n² edges, or find one that needs more.
Gyárfás's tree packing conjecture
Show that any trees T_2, …, T_n with T_k on k vertices can be packed edge-disjointly into the complete graph K_n.
Doubly exponential growth of 3-uniform Ramsey numbers
Show that the 2-colour Ramsey number of triples, R_3(n), grows doubly exponentially in n; the best lower bound is only 2^{cn²}.
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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Three-colouring arrangements of great circles
Prove that the crossing points of every simple arrangement of great circles can be 3-coloured, or find one that needs four colours.
Openper The Open Problems Project, 2026-10-20
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Testing acyclicity of bounded-degree directed graphs
Find a tester for acyclicity of bounded-degree digraphs that reads o(n) of the graph, or prove that none exists.
Open cases in the table of strongly regular graphs
Decide whether strongly regular graphs exist for the open parameter sets in Brouwer's table, starting with (88, 27, 6, 9).
Openper Parameters of strongly regular graphs (A. E. Brouwer), 2026-10-20
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Small two-colour Ramsey numbers
Improve the table of small Ramsey numbers R(k,l), starting with the open cases R(3,10), R(4,6) and R(3,11).
Openper Small Ramsey Numbers (Radziszowski, dynamic survey DS1), 2026-10-20
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Sidorenko's conjecture for K5,5 minus a 10-cycle
Prove Sidorenko's inequality for K5,5 minus a 10-cycle, its smallest open case, or find a graphon that violates it.
Openper AlphaEvolve Repository of Problems, 2026-10-20
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The Shannon capacity of the 7-cycle
Find larger zero-error codes for the 7-cycle channel, or a better upper bound: its capacity lies between 3.25883 and 3.3177.
Openper Optimization Constants in Mathematics, 2026-10-20
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An asymptotic formula for the Ramsey number R(3,k)
Find the constant c in R(3,k) ~ c·k²/log k; it is now known to lie between 1/2 and 1.
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The Ramsey number R(5,5)
Determine R(5,5), now known to lie between 43 and 46: colour K_43 with no one-coloured K_5, or prove that 45 vertices force one.
Openper Small Ramsey Numbers (Radziszowski, dynamic survey DS1), 2026-10-20
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Online minimum spanning trees with random edge weights
Prove that the optimal expected cost of building a spanning tree online, with random edge weights, converges, and find the limit.
Openper David Aldous's open problems, 2026-10-20
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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.
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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The graceful tree conjecture
Show that every tree with m edges can be labelled by distinct numbers 0 to m so that the edge differences are exactly 1 to m.
Openper Formal Conjectures, 2026-10-20
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Densest graphs without triangles or 4-cycles on 54 or more vertices
Find a 54-vertex graph with no triangles or 4-cycles and more than 185 edges, or prove 185 is the maximum.
Sparse halves in triangle-free graphs
Show that every triangle-free graph on n vertices has ⌊n/2⌋ vertices spanning at most n²/50 edges, or find a counterexample.
Open, $250 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$250 prize
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The Erdős matching conjecture
Determine the largest r-uniform hypergraph on n vertices with no k disjoint edges; Erdős conjectured one of two simple families wins.
The Erdős–Hajnal conjecture
Show that graphs avoiding a fixed induced subgraph H always contain a clique or independent set of size n^{c(H)}.
Cycles of length a power of two (the Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture)
Show that every finite graph with minimum degree 3 has a cycle of length 4, 8, 16 or another power of two, or find a counterexample.
Open, $1000 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$1000 prize
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The exponential growth rate of Ramsey numbers
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.
Open, $250 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$250 prize
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Conway's 99-graph problem
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.
Openper Parameters of strongly regular graphs (A. E. Brouwer), 2026-10-20
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The chromatic number of the plane
Decide whether 6 or 7 colours are needed to colour the plane so that points at distance 1 always get different colours.
Four-cycle-free subgraphs of the hypercube
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.
Open, $100 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$100 prize
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Rational exponents for bipartite Turán numbers
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.
Open, $500 prizeper Erdős Problems, 2026-10-20$500 prize
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