Questions tagged [conjectures]
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Is the conjecture A+B=C following correct?
Is the conjecture on A+B=C following correct ?
Conjecture: Let $A, B, C$ be three positive integer numbers such that $A+B=C$ with $\gcd(A, B, C) = 1$. By Fundamental theorem of arithmetic we write:
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An explicit series representation for the analytic tetration with complex height
Tetration is the next hyperoperation after more familiar addition, multiplication and exponentiation. It can be seen as a repeated exponentiation, similar to how exponentiation can be seen as a ...
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Are there examples of conjectures supported by heuristic arguments that have been finally disproved?
The idea for this comes from the twin prime conjecture, where the heuristic evidence seems just so overwhelming, especially in the light of Zhang's famous result from 2014 about Bounded gaps between ...
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More mysteries about the zeros of the Riemann zeta function
Update on 12/26/2020: I added the Appendix at the bottom: simplified formula for $|\zeta(s)|^2$, when $\frac{1}{2}<\Re(s)<1$.
Update on 1/5/2020: I added the section "more interesting ...
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Conjecture: The number of points modulo $p$ of certain elliptic curve is $p$ or $p+2$ for $p$ of form $p=27a^2+27a+7$
Numerical evidence suggests a conjecture that the number of
points of certain elliptic curve over $\mathbb{F}_p$ is
either $p$ or $p+2$ for $p$ of certain form.
Let $p$ be prime of the form $p=27a^2+...
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Have new conjectures generated by the Ramanujan machine been proven?
Recently the following preprint was published with new automatically generated conjectures on generalizes continuous fractions, e.g., for the Euler constant: Raayoni, Pisha, Manor, Mendlovic, Haviv, ...
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Strengthened version of Isoperimetric inequality with n-polygon
Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral with the lengths $a, b, c, d$ and the area $S$. The main result in our paper equivalent to:
\begin{equation} a^2+b^2+c^2+d^2 \ge 4S + \frac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{3}}\...
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What is the status on this conjecture on arithmetic progressions of primes?
The Green-Tao theorem states that for every $n$, there is an arithmetic sequence of length $n$ consisting of primes.
For primes, $p$, let $P(p)$ be the maximum length of an arithmetic progression of ...
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Is it a reasonable way to write a research article assuming truth of a conjecture?
I have found a conjecture in a research article (published in a good journal) on number theory, which is not well known but very reasonable. Let me be clear that, there is no counter-example that vote ...
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A tantalizing Gamma quotient to challenge the Rohrlich-Lang Conjecture
The Rohrlich-Lang Conjecture for polynomial relations in Gamma values predicts that all polynomial relations between Gamma values over $\mathbb Q$ come from the functional equations satisfied by the ...
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On Generalizations of Fermat's Conjecture
We know the following facts:
(1) For all $1\leq n\leq 2$ the equation $x_{1}^{n}+x_{2}^{n}=x_{3}^{n}$ has a solution in $\mathbb{N}$.
(2) For all $3\leq n$ the equation $x_{1}^{n}+x_{2}^{n}=x_{3}^{n}...
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A conjecture generalization of Karamata inequality
Fist I observe function $f(x)=x^2$ in the figure as following
I found that when $x_1 \ge y_1$ and $x_2 \le y_2$ $\Rightarrow$ $AB \ge CD$
$\Rightarrow$ $$\frac{f(x_1)+f(x_2)}{2}-f(\frac{x_1+x_2}...
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On the nearest-square function and the quantity $m^2 - p^k$ where $p^k m^2$ is an odd perfect number
This question has been cross-posted from this MSE question and is an offshoot of this other MSE question.
(Note that MSE user mathlove has posted an answer in MSE, which I could not completely ...
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Which motivic cohomology groups of complex numbers are non-torsion?
I would like to know which motivic cohomology groups of complex numbers are non-zero and ("better") non-torsion, i.e., for which $(i,j)$ the $i$th cohomology of the complex ${\mathbb{Q}}(j)$ over $\...
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A cubic and six conics problem
I am an electrical engineer system. I live in Viet Nam. I am not a Mathematician. I construct and found a problem as follows:
Let a cubic, and five conics $(C_1)$, $(C_2)$, $(C_3)$, $(C_4)$, $(C_5)$. ...
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Maximum matching in a graph with no "shortcuts"
For a directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G$, denote by $G^\star$ the undirected graph obtained from $G$ by ignoring direction of its arcs. Let $e(G)=e(G^\star)$ be the number of arcs in $G$ (or edges in $G^...
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Status of Hadamard matrix conjecture
I would like to know if any progress has been made on Hadamard conjecture :
Hadamard matrix of order $4k$ exists for every positive integer $k$.
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What are conjectures that are true for primes but then turned out to be false for some composite number?
Note: This is an update formulation since many people misunderstood the question before.
Of course it is easy to make a statement like "Every n is a prime or at most 1000", which is true for every ...
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Isoperimetric inequality, isodiametric inequality, hyperplane conjecture... what are the inequalities of this kind known or conjectured?
I duplicate here a question I asked on math.stackexchange.
Question: Which inequalities similar to the famous isoperimetric inequality is known?
conjectured?
I recently learned about some ...
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Conjectured primality test for specific class of $N=4kp^n+1$
Can you provide a proof or counterexample for the following claim?
Let $P_m(x)=2^{-m}\cdot((x-\sqrt{x^2-4})^m+(x+\sqrt{x^2-4})^m)$ .
Let $N= 4kp^{n}+1 $ where $k$ is a positive natural number , $...
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Almost Complex Structures: 'Tame' versus 'Compatible'
Consider a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ and the space of almost complex structures. These are $J:TM\to TM$ with $J^2=-\text{id}$. A given $J$ is $\omega$-tame when $\omega(v,Jv)>0$, and $J$ is $...
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Does Vizing's conjecture hold for the infinite graphs?
In finite graph theory, there are many (in)equalities which relate the integer value of a certain graph invariant (e.g. domination or chromatic number) for the product of two finite graphs (e.g. ...
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Percentage of Ramanujan's conjectures that were proven correct
Today I read the following brief but insightful account of Ramanujan's approach to mathematics: https://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan/images/KSRchap3.pdf and while reading this I wondered whether we ...
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Different flavours of Vassiliev Conjecture
There is something that puzzles me about "Vassiliev's Conjecture". I am sure I am missing some detail which is obvious to the community, since there are several tightly related kind of ...
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Does the equation $\sigma(\sigma(x^2))=2x\sigma(x)$ have any odd solutions?
This question was posted in MSE in early August 2020. It did garner several upvotes, but did not receive any responses. I have therefore cross-posted it here, hoping that it gets answered.
Let $\...
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The 4th Lemoine circle
The first and second Lemoine circles are well-known to geometers. According to this article the third Lemoine circle has been first discovered by Jean-Pierre Ehrmann in 2002. It is worth noting that ...
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Lemoine-Lozada circles
I made some rookie attempt to define the 4th Lemoine circle recently. The alternative name for this circle was suggested yesterday. Further investigation revealed a family of circles associated with ...
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is there a link with the probabilistic model for prime numbers?
Let $x \in \mathbb{R}_+$ and $k \in \mathbb{N}^{*}$.
Let :
$$\mathcal{A}(x)=\#\{(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k) \in \mathbb{P}^k \mid (a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k \text{ verifying some properties}) \, , a_k \...
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Conjectured new primality test for Mersenne numbers
How to prove that this conjecture about a new primality test for Mersenne numbers is true ?
Definition: Let $M_{q}=2^{q}-1 , S_{0} = 3^{2} + 1/3^{2} , \ and: \ S_{i+1} = S_{i}^{2}-2 \pmod{M_{q}}$
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A problem of four curves
This is a generalization of my previous question, a problem of a cubic and six conics.
Let a curve $(K)$ of degree $m$ and three curves $(C_i)$ of degree $n$, for $i=1,2,3$. Let $(C_1)$ meets $(K)$ ...
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Integer valued polynomials over several variables
For simplicity this is about polynomials in just two variables.
Any $f\in\mathbb Q[X,Y]$ can be written as a linear combination of monomials
$X^iY^j$ and therefore as a sum of polynomials $p_{ij}\...
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A rearrangement inequality for exponentiation function
Update: A year ago, but the first answer is not clear with me. I bounty this question again.
My question: I am looking for a proof or counterexample to the following inequality:
If $n \in \mathbb{...
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A conjecture regarding odd perfect numbers
(Note: I asked this question in MSE this June 2018 but did not receive any responses there. I have therefore cross-posted it here, hoping that it gets answered.)
Let $\sigma(z)$ denote the sum of ...
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A relation of the prime counting function $\pi$ to counting the ordered ways of a number $n$ as a sum of two primes and two questions?
The definitions are from these two questions:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3164216/a-series-related-to-prime-numbers
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4349186/trying-to-understand-...
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On $\sum_{\substack{p\leq x\\p,p+2\text{ twin primes}}}\frac{(\log p)^m}{p}$, on assumption of the first Hardy–Littlewood conjecture
I wondered, inspired in a result from [1] (Proposition 17) what should be the asymptotic behaviour of the sequence, on assumption of the First Hardy–Littlewood conjecture,
$$\sum_{\substack{\text{...
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Arithmetic progression and average of two prime numbers
Let $A=(a_n : n \in \mathbb{N})$ be the sequence given by:
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\ a_n = a_1 + (n - 1)d,\quad a_1,\ d,\ n \in \mathbb N,\quad d\gt a_1,\quad \gcd(a_1,\ d)=1.
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For all terms of $A$ greater than $\ \...
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Optimal covering trails for every $k$-dimensional cubic lattice $\mathbb{N}^k := \{(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n) : x_i \in \mathbb{N} \wedge n \geq 3\}$
After a dozen years spent investigating this particular class of problems, I finally give up and I wish to ask you if any improvement is achievable from here on.
The general problem is as follows:
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Dirac's theorem and the 1-factorization conjecture
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple, undirected graph. A matching is a subset $M\subseteq E$ such that all members of $M$ are pairwise disjoint; moreover we call $M$ perfect if $\bigcup M = V$.
The 1-...
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A symmetric polynomial inequality
I improve my previous question. Because this conjecture is exactly natural development of A Muirhead Like Inequality and Muirhead's Inequality so I think the conjecture is true. But I can not prove it....
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Are there infinitely many $n$ such that $n!-1$ and $n!+1$ are prime numbers? [closed]
Are there infinitely many $n$ such that $n!−1$ and $n!+1$ are prime numbers?
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