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Kneser–Poulsen conjecture ★★★

Author(s): Kneser; Poulsen

Conjecture   If a finite set of unit balls in $ \mathbb{R}^n $ is rearranged so that the distance between each pair of centers does not decrease, then the volume of the union of the balls does not decrease.

Keywords: pushing disks

Posted by tchow
updated September 25th, 2008
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Combinatorics

Wide partition conjecture ★★

Author(s): Chow; Taylor

Conjecture   An integer partition is wide if and only if it is Latin.

Keywords:

Posted by tchow
updated September 24th, 2008
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Combinatorics

3-accessibility of Fibonacci numbers ★★

Author(s): Landman; Robertson

Question   Is the set of Fibonacci numbers 3-accessible?

Keywords: Fibonacci numbers; monochromatic diffsequences

Posted by vjungic
updated August 24th, 2008
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Geometry

Simplexity of the n-cube ★★★

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Question   What is the minimum cardinality of a decomposition of the $ n $-cube into $ n $-simplices?

Keywords: cube; decomposition; simplex

Posted by mdevos
updated August 6th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Topological G.T. » Crossing numbers

Crossing sequences ★★

Author(s): Archdeacon; Bonnington; Siran

Conjecture   Let $ (a_0,a_1,a_2,\ldots,0) $ be a sequence of nonnegative integers which strictly decreases until $ 0 $.

Then there exists a graph that be drawn on a surface with orientable (nonorientable, resp.) genus $ i $ with $ a_i $ crossings, but not with less crossings.

Keywords: crossing number; crossing sequence

Posted by Robert Samal
updated July 30th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Topological G.T. » Crossing numbers

The Crossing Number of the Complete Graph ★★★

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The crossing number $ cr(G) $ of $ G $ is the minimum number of crossings in all drawings of $ G $ in the plane.

Conjecture   $ \displaystyle cr(K_n) = \frac 14 \floor{\frac n2} \floor{\frac{n-1}2} \floor{\frac{n-2}2} \floor{\frac{n-3}2} $

Keywords: complete graph; crossing number

Posted by Robert Samal
updated July 28th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Topological G.T. » Crossing numbers

The Crossing Number of the Hypercube ★★

Author(s): Erdos; Guy

The crossing number $ cr(G) $ of $ G $ is the minimum number of crossings in all drawings of $ G $ in the plane.

The $ d $-dimensional (hyper)cube $ Q_d $ is the graph whose vertices are all binary sequences of length $ d $, and two of the sequences are adjacent in $ Q_d $ if they differ in precisely one coordinate.

Conjecture   $ \displaystyle \lim \frac{cr(Q_d)}{4^d} = \frac{5}{32} $

Keywords: crossing number; hypercube

Posted by Robert Samal
updated July 18th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Directed Graphs » Tournaments

Monochromatic reachability or rainbow triangles ★★★

Author(s): Sands; Sauer; Woodrow

In an edge-colored digraph, we say that a subgraph is rainbow if all its edges have distinct colors, and monochromatic if all its edges have the same color.

Problem   Let $ G $ be a tournament with edges colored from a set of three colors. Is it true that $ G $ must have either a rainbow directed cycle of length three or a vertex $ v $ so that every other vertex can be reached from $ v $ by a monochromatic (directed) path?

Keywords: digraph; edge-coloring; tournament

Posted by mdevos
updated July 15th, 2008
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Topology

Rank vs. Genus ★★★

Author(s): Johnson

Question   Is there a hyperbolic 3-manifold whose fundamental group rank is strictly less than its Heegaard genus? How much can the two differ by?

Keywords:

Posted by Jesse Johnson
updated July 13th, 2008
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Geometry » Algebraic Geometry

The Hodge Conjecture ★★★★

Author(s): Hodge

Conjecture   Let $ X $ be a complex projective variety. Then every Hodge class is a rational linear combination of the cohomology classes of complex subvarieties of $ X $.

Keywords: Hodge Theory; Millenium Problems

Posted by Charles
updated July 13th, 2008
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Combinatorics

2-accessibility of primes ★★

Author(s): Landman; Robertson

Question   Is the set of prime numbers 2-accessible?

Keywords: monochromatic diffsequences; primes

Posted by vjungic
updated July 9th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Directed Graphs

Non-edges vs. feedback edge sets in digraphs ★★★

Author(s): Chudnovsky; Seymour; Sullivan

For any simple digraph $ G $, we let $ \gamma(G) $ be the number of unordered pairs of nonadjacent vertices (i.e. the number of non-edges), and $ \beta(G) $ be the size of the smallest feedback edge set.

Conjecture  If $ G $ is a simple digraph without directed cycles of length $ \le 3 $, then $ \beta(G) \le \frac{1}{2} \gamma(G) $.

Keywords: acyclic; digraph; feedback edge set; triangle free

Posted by mdevos
updated July 8th, 2008
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Logic

Tarski's exponential function problem ★★

Author(s): Tarski

Conjecture   Is the theory of the real numbers with the exponential function decidable?

Keywords: Decidability

Posted by Charles
updated July 8th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Coloring » Vertex coloring

Counting 3-colorings of the hex lattice ★★

Author(s): Thomassen

Problem   Find $ \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} (\chi( H_n , 3)) ^{ 1 / |V(H_n)| } $.

Keywords: coloring; Lieb's Ice Constant; tiling; torus

Posted by mdevos
updated July 5th, 2008
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Geometry

Dense rational distance sets in the plane ★★★

Author(s): Ulam

Problem   Does there exist a dense set $ S \subseteq {\mathbb R}^2 $ so that all pairwise distances between points in $ S $ are rational?

Keywords: integral distance; rational distance

Posted by mdevos
updated July 4th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Probabilistic G.T.

Negative association in uniform forests ★★

Author(s): Pemantle

Conjecture   Let $ G $ be a finite graph, let $ e,f \in E(G) $, and let $ F $ be the edge set of a forest chosen uniformly at random from all forests of $ G $. Then \[ {\mathbb P}(e \in F \mid f \in F}) \le {\mathbb P}(e \in F) \]

Keywords: forest; negative association

Posted by mdevos
updated June 30th, 2008
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Number Theory » Computational N.T.

Wall-Sun-Sun primes and Fibonacci divisibility ★★

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Conjecture   For any prime $ p $, there exists a Fibonacci number divisible by $ p $ exactly once.

Equivalently:

Conjecture   For any prime $ p>5 $, $ p^2 $ does not divide $ F_{p-\left(\frac p5\right)} $ where $ \left(\frac mn\right) $ is the Legendre symbol.

Keywords: Fibonacci; prime

Posted by adudzik
updated June 14th, 2008
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Graph Theory » Coloring

Total Colouring Conjecture ★★★

Author(s): Behzad

Conjecture   A total coloring of a graph $ G = (V,E) $ is an assignment of colors to the vertices and the edges of $ G $ such that every pair of adjacent vertices, every pair of adjacent edges and every vertex and incident edge pair, receive different colors. The total chromatic number of a graph $ G $, $ \chi''(G) $, equals the minimum number of colors needed in a total coloring of $ G $. It is an old conjecture of Behzad that for every graph $ G $, the total chromatic number equals the maximum degree of a vertex in $ G $, $ \Delta(G) $ plus one or two. In other words, \[\chi''(G)=\Delta(G)+1\ \ or \ \ \Delta(G)+2.\]

Keywords: Total coloring

Posted by Iradmusa
updated June 4th, 2008
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Graph Theory

Edge Reconstruction Conjecture ★★★

Author(s): Harary

Conjecture  

Every simple graph with at least 4 edges is reconstructible from it's edge deleted subgraphs

Keywords: reconstruction

Posted by melch
updated May 23rd, 2008
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Graph Theory » Basic G.T.

Nearly spanning regular subgraphs ★★★

Author(s): Alon; Mubayi

Conjecture   For every $ \epsilon > 0 $ and every positive integer $ k $, there exists $ r_0 = r_0(\epsilon,k) $ so that every simple $ r $-regular graph $ G $ with $ r \ge r_0 $ has a $ k $-regular subgraph $ H $ with $ |V(H)| \ge (1- \epsilon) |V(G)| $.

Keywords: regular; subgraph

Posted by mdevos
updated May 22nd, 2008
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