Conjecture Suppose runners having distinct constant speeds start at a common point and run laps on a circular track with circumference 1. Then for any given runner, there is a time at which that runner is distance at least (along the track) away from every other runner.
Problem Does there exist a polynomial time algorithm which takes as input a graph and for every vertex a subset of , and decides if there exists a partition of into so that only if and so that are independent, is a clique, and there are no edges between and ?
Conjecture Let and . Then for any neighborhood there is such that is periodic point of
There is an analogous conjecture for flows ( vector fields . In the case of diffeos this was proved by Charles Pugh for . In the case of Flows this has been solved by Sushei Hayahshy for . But in the two cases the problem is wide open for
Conjecture For every fixed graph , there exists a constant , so that every graph without an induced subgraph isomorphic to contains either a clique or an independent set of size .
Problem Two players alternately write O's (first player) and X's (second player) in the unoccupied cells of an grid. The first player (if any) to occupy four cells at the vertices of a square with horizontal and vertical sides is the winner. What is the outcome of the game given optimal play? Note: Roland Bacher and Shalom Eliahou proved that every 15 x 15 binary matrix contains four equal entries (all 0's or all 1's) at the vertices of a square with horizontal and vertical sides. So the game must result in a winner (the first player) when n=15.
Conjecture There exists a fixed constant so that every abelian group has a subset with so that the Cayley graph has no clique or independent set of size .
Conjecture For all positive integers and , there exists an integer such that every graph of average degree at least contains a subgraph of average degree at least and girth greater than .
Conjecture Suppose with is a connected cubic graph admitting a -edge coloring. Then there is an edge such that the cubic graph homeomorphic to has a -edge coloring.
Conjecture Let be a field of characteristic zero. A collection of polynomials in variables defines an automorphism of if and only if the Jacobian matrix is a nonzero constant.
Question What is the Waring rank of the determinant of a generic matrix?
For simplicity say we work over the complex numbers. The generic matrix is the matrix with entries for . Its determinant is a homogeneous form of degree , in variables. If is a homogeneous form of degree , a power sum expression for is an expression of the form , the (homogeneous) linear forms. The Waring rank of is the least number of terms in any power sum expression for . For example, the expression means that has Waring rank (it can't be less than , as ).
The generic determinant (or ) has Waring rank . The Waring rank of the generic determinant is at least and no more than , see for instance Lower bound for ranks of invariant forms, Example 4.1. The Waring rank of the permanent is also of interest. The comparison between the determinant and permanent is potentially relevant to Valiant's "VP versus VNP" problem.
Conjecture There exists a fixed constant (probably suffices) so that every graft with minimum -cut size at least contains a -join packing of size at least .