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    Cycle Double Cover Conjecture

    Does every finite bridgeless graph have a collection of cycles in which every edge appears exactly twice?

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    Stanley’s claw-free Schur-positivity conjecture

    Is the chromatic symmetric function XG(x)X_G(\mathbf x) Schur positive for every claw-free graph GG?

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    Feige’s hypergraph Moore-bound conjecture

    At the conjectured density, must every kk-uniform hypergraph contain a short nontrivial even cover, with constants free of superfluous polylogarithmic factors?

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    Graffiti Conjecture 284

    If a finite graph GG has girth at least five, must its minimum dual degree satisfy δ(G)n(G)\delta^*(G)\leq-\partial_n(G), where n(G)\partial_n(G) is the smallest eigenvalue of its distanc…

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    Graffiti Conjecture 143

    For every connected graph, is the variance of its positive adjacency eigenvalues at most its order divided by its average distance?

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    Record Shannon-capacity lower bounds for odd cycles

    Determine the Shannon capacities of odd cycles beyond C5C_5, or improve the best explicit independent-set bounds in their strong graph powers.

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    Elementary symmetric-polynomial bounds for centered vectors and matrices

    How sharply can elementary symmetric polynomials be bounded under vector or matrix centering constraints, and what quantitative consequences follow for permutation mixtures and fin…

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    Erdős Problem #1190

    For a finite family of distinct moduli m<n1<<nkm<n_1<\cdots<n_k whose residue classes can be chosen pairwise disjoint, determine the largest possible reciprocal sum i1/ni\sum_i1/n_i as…

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    Erdős Problem #1092

    If every mm-vertex subgraph is the union of an rr-colourable graph and a graph with at most fr(m)f_r(m) edges, how large can frf_r be while forcing the whole graph to be (r+1)(r+1)-col…

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    Erdős Problem #1091

    Must every K4K_4-free 4-chromatic graph contain an odd cycle with at least two diagonals? More generally, can local 3-colourability force odd cycles with arbitrarily many diagonals…

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    Erdős Problem #1014

    For every fixed k3k\geq3, does R(k,l+1)/R(k,l)1R(k,l+1)/R(k,l)\to1 as ll\to\infty?

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    Erdős Problem #986

    For every fixed k3k\geq3, is the off-diagonal Ramsey number R(k,n)R(k,n) bounded below by nk1/(logn)c(k)n^{k-1}/(\log n)^{c(k)}?

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    Erdős Problem #966

    For k,r2k,r\geq2, does there exist a set of integers with no nontrivial (k+1)(k+1)-term arithmetic progression but whose every rr-colouring contains a monochromatic kk-term progressio…

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    Erdős Problem #865

    Is there a constant CC such that every sufficiently large A[1,N]A\subseteq[1,N] of size at least 5N/8+C5N/8+C contains distinct a,b,ca,b,c for which a+ba+b, a+ca+c, and b+cb+c also lie in AA?

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    Erdős Problem #863

    Compare maximal finite sets with at most rr representations of each sum to maximal sets with at most rr representations of each difference. Are their asymptotic constants unequal…

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    Erdős Problem #750

    Does there exist an infinite-chromatic graph in which every mm-vertex subgraph has an independent set of size at least m/2f(m)m/2-f(m) for some f(m)f(m)\to\infty?

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    Erdős Problem #741

    If A+AA+A has positive upper density, can AA be split into A1A2A_1\sqcup A_2 so that both A1+A1A_1+A_1 and A2+A2A_2+A_2 have positive upper density? Is there a basis AA of order 22 such…

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    Erdős Problem #281

    Let n1<n2<n_1<n_2<\cdots be such that, for any choice of classes ai(modni)a_i\pmod{n_i}, the uncovered integers have density zero. For every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, must some kk make the uncovered den…

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    Erdős Problem #152

    For any M1M\geq 1, if ANA\subset \mathbb{N} is a sufficiently large finite Sidon set, must there be at least MM sums aA+Aa\in A+A for which neither a1a-1 nor a+1a+1 lies in A+AA+A?

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    Erdős Problem #619

    For a connected triangle-free graph GG on nn vertices, is there a constant c>0c>0 such that fewer than (1c)n(1-c)n added edges always suffice to make the diameter 4 while keeping the…

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    Erdős Problem #610

    How large can the clique-transversal number τ(G)\tau(G) be for an nn-vertex graph? In particular, is τ(G)nω(n)n\tau(G)\leq n-\omega(n)\sqrt n, or even ncnlognn-c\sqrt{n\log n}?

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    Erdős Problem #1026

    For distinct real numbers x1,,xnx_1,\ldots,x_n, determine the maximum possible sum along a monotone subsequence.

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    Erdős Problem #124

    For bases 3d1<<dr3\leq d_1<\cdots<d_r satisfying the stated reciprocal-sum condition, can every sufficiently large integer be represented as a sum of distinct powers of the did_i? Under…

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    Ramsey-style hypergraph construction

    Let H(n)H(n) be the largest number of vertices in a hypergraph with no isolated vertices and no partition of size greater than nn. If k1=1k_1=1 and…

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    Monical’s SNP conjecture for Schur-positive chromatic functions

    If XGX_G is Schur positive, must XG(x1,,xk)X_G(x_1,\ldots,x_k) have saturated Newton polytope for every finite kk?

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