Questions tagged [conjectures]
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65 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Numbers of the form $x^2(x-1) + y^2(y-1) + z^2(z-1)$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$
Roger Heath-Brown conjectured that any integer $k\not\equiv\pm4\pmod9$ can be expressed as $x^3+y^3+z^3$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$ in infinitely many different ways. Also it is well-known that some ...
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Do primes of the form $4k+1$ ever lead the greatest prime factor race?
Analogous to Chebyshev's race between primes, I examined the race between primes in the greatest prime factors, GPF, of natural numbers. Similar to the regular prime race, in the GPF race, the ...
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Consequences of Zeeman's conjecture
Recall the Zeeman's conjecture: if $K$ is a contractible polyhedron of dimension 2, then $K\times I$ has a collapsible subdivision.
Zeeman showed that this implies the Poincaré conjecture in ...
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Does the interior of Pascal's triangle contain three consecutive integers?
This question defeated Math SE, so I am posting it here.
Consider the interior of Pascal's triangle: the triangle without numbers of the form $\binom{n}{0},\binom{n}{1},\binom{n}{n-1},\binom{n}{n}$.
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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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A conjecture of Blakley and Dixon about odd powers of positive matrices
In a 1966 paper Blakley and Dixon conjecture the following. Let $S$ be a symmetric matrix with nonnegative entries and let $u$ be a unit vector with nonnegative entries. For integers $k\ge j$ both odd,...
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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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Symmetric function transition matrix and a non-conjecture by Clifford and Stanley
Consider the transition matrix $R = \left(R_{\lambda,\mu}\right)$, defined by
$$
p_\lambda = \sum_{\mu} R_{\lambda\mu}m_\mu ,
$$
between the power-sum and the monomial basis of the ring of symmetric ...
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A generalization of Feit–Thompson conjecture, for square-free integers
I asked the following question with my account that I have for these sites Mathematics Stack Exchange and MathOverflow. The bounty that I offered in MSE expired without answers. The post that I refer ...
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Order of magnitude of extremely abundant numbers and RH
I have always been intrigued by the fact that Riemann's hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion (you can find the scanned paper here) that the inequality $$\frac{\sigma(n)}n<e^\gamma \log\log n \...
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Is there a composite number for which this game with composite numbers never ends?
I created some "game" a couple of days ago and modified it during the last hour or so and now I want to present it to you.
Choose some natural number $>1$. If the chosen natural number is of the ...
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What is the status of this fifty-year-old conjecture of Kostant?
On page 3.27 of his 1963 thesis on the cohomology of homogeneous spaces as approached through the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence, Paul Baum states the following conjecture, which he attributes to B....
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What will be the consequences if second Hardy-Littlewood conjecture turns out to be true?
It is generally believed that the Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture is false. But it has not been proved (or disproved) yet. My question is,
What would be the consequences if Second Hardy-Littlewood ...
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Graphs with graphic imbalance sequences
Let $G$ be simple undirected graph and $e=uv\in E(G)$.
The imbalance of the edge $e$ is the value $imb(e)=|d(u)-d(v)|$.
Let $M_{G}$ denotes the imbalance sequence (or more correctly, multiset 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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Localizing Bondy's metaconjecture on hamiltonicity
Definitions:
Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices. $G$ is Hamiltonian provided $G$ has a cycle of length $n$. $G$ is pancyclic provided $G$ has a cycle of length $\ell$ for every $3 \leq \ell \leq n$.
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An inequality in cyclic polygon and tangential polygon
I proposed my conjecture, it is strengthened version of the Erdős–Mordell inequality as following:
Let $A_1A_2.....A_n$ be a cyclic polygon and $B_1B_2....B_n$ be the its tangential polygon. Let $P$ ...
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Counting primes, twin primes, cousin primes: unusual approach, connection to some conjectures
I am investigating the following sieve-like algorithm. Let $S_N=\{1,\dots,N\}$. For all primes $p$ with $p_0\leq p \leq M$, we remove from $S_N$ the following elements: all numbers $n\in S_N$ such ...
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Heuristics for the very little torsion in the cohomology of Shimura variety
Consider the following statement which is a part of Conjecture 1.3 in the paper titled "The asymptotic growth of torsion homology for arithmetic groups" authored by N. Bergeron and A. ...
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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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The Krzyż Conjecture
What is the state of the Krzyż Conjecture? It states for that for all $f:\mathbb{D}\to \bar{\mathbb{D}}$ holomorphic and non-vanishing, the coefficients $a_n$ in the power series of $f$ are at most $2/...
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The set of numbers $a+b$ such that $ma^2+nb^2$ is prime
Conjecture:
If $m,n$ are coprime it exist a minimal natural number $N_{mn}$ such
that:
$\{a+b>N_{mn}\mid a,b\in\mathbb N^+\wedge ma^2+nb^2\in\mathbb P_{>2}\} = \{ k > N_{mn} \mid \...
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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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there exist infinite many $n\in\mathbb{N}$ such that $S_n-[S_n]<\frac{1}{n^2}$
Let $S_n:=1+\frac12+\frac13+\ldots+\frac1n$. Is it true that the set of $n\in\mathbb N$ such that
$$S_n-[S_n]<\dfrac{1}{n^2}$$
is infinite?
Here, $[x]$ represents the largest integer not exceeding $...
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Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture theme
If Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture is true then we can claim that $\pi(x)-\pi(y)\leq \pi(x-y)$. Thus the conjecture gives an upper bound for the number of primes between $x$ and $y$. I have found ...
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Are local complete intersections of small codimension necessarily (global) complete intersections?
Hartshorne's 1974 conjecture states that a smooth closed subvariety $X$ of $\mathbb{CP}^r$ of dimension $>2/3r$ is necessarily (globally) a complete intersection. Is anything interesting known ...
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Uses of excluded middle on a conjecture that can be rewritten constructively with this trick
An interesting proof technique is to use the law of excluded middle on a conjecture. There are proofs using LEM on the Riemann hypothesis for example.
Constructively this is disallowed (if you can ...
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Conjecture about primes and Fibonacci numbers
I posted this conjecture on math.stackexchange, but I received no answer proving or disproving it: if $ m > 4 $ is a positive integer not divisible by $ 2 $ or $ 3 $, it's ever possible to find a ...
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A conjecture on consistent monotone sequences of polynomials in Bernstein form
A Conjecture
In the following, a polynomial $P(x)$ is written in Bernstein form of degree $n$ if it is written as— $$P(x)=\sum_{k=0}^n a_k {n \choose k} x^k (1-x)^{n-k},$$ where $a_0, ..., a_n$ are ...
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Counting twin primes with a sieve-like algorithm
The sequence A002822, denoted as $S$, represents all the twin primes except $\{3, 5\}$. Other than that exception, $k$ and $k+2$ are twin primes iff $(k+1)/6\in S$. Let $S(N)$ be the subset of $S$ ...
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Equivalence of the union-closed sets conjecture that is locally weaker of any use?
Let $F$ be a union-closed family. We call $F$ minimal if for every $x\in \cup(F)$ we find $S\in F$ such that $S\backslash \{x\} \in F$. It is sufficient to proof the union-closed sets conjecture for ...
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Schur positive expression involving border-strip tableaux
Recall the power-sum expansion of Schur functions,
$$
s_\lambda = \sum_\mu \chi^{\lambda}(\mu) \frac{p_\mu}{z_\mu},
$$
in terms of Sn-character. These can be calculated
by the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule, ...
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Zero divisors with support size 3 in complex group algebras of residually finite groups
Conjecture. There exists a function $f:\mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that if $\beta$ is a non-zero element of the complex group algebra $\mathbb{C}[G]$ of a finite group $G$ such that $1\...
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Looking for an appropriate reference(s) for two conjectures on odd perfect numbers
(I apologize in advance if this question is unsuitable for MO. If so, please let me know and I will migrate it to MSE.)
Let $\sigma(M)$ be the sum of the divisors of the positive integer $M$. For ...
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Does a matrix ring over a ring satisfy the Koethe conjecture if the coefficient ring itself satisfies the Koethe conjecture?
I just want to know whether the following statement is true or false.
If $R$ is a ring satisfying the Koethe conjecture, then the matrix ring over $R$ also satisfies the Koethe conjecture.
Or is it ...
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On a subset of the $abc$ triples
The $abc$ conjecture states that, for every positive real $\varepsilon$, there exist only finitely many triples $(a, b, c)$ of coprime positive integers such that $a + b = c$ and
$$c > \...
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How soon can we represent a number as the sum of two primes?
Posting in MO since it was unanswered in MSE.
Goldbach's conjecture says that every even number can be represented as the sum of two primes. But how soon can we find such a representation. Taking $20 =...
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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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A conjectured upper bound for the mean value of prime divisors inside prime gaps
In 1969 C.A. Grimm stated this interesting conjecture: the prime gap $\,G_n=\{x\in N:p_n\lt x\lt p_{n+1}\}\,$ contains at least $\,\#G_n=(p_{n+1}-p_n)-1=g_n-1\,$ distinct prime divisors, that is if $\,...
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Asymptotics of Littlewood polynomials
Littlewood in [L] states several conjectures regarding asymptotics of polynomials with $\pm1$ coefficients.
He considers the class $\mathscr F$ of polynomials of form $\sum^n\pm z^m$ and asks whether ...
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Weak Leopoldt Conjecture for the Split Prime $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension
In his 1973 Annals paper, Iwasawa proved that the weak Leopoldt Conjecture holds for the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of any number field.
If $K$ is an imaginary quadratic field and $F/K$ is ...
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Does this idea give an algorithm for constructing Hadamard matrices?
Fedor Petrov's answer of my preceding question shows that my question reduces to the famous Hadamard conjecture about Hadamard matrices of order $4k$. So I decided to study this conjecture and I got ...
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Testing the Cartan determinant conjecture via Gorenstein algebras
Let $A$ be a Gorenstein algebra (of infinite global dimension) with finitely many indecomposable Gorenstein projective modules and $X$ the basic direct sum of all indecomposable Gorenstein projective ...
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Non-negative, monotone polynomial sequences without combinatorial interpretation
I am wondering what sequences of integers there are, that are known to grow polynomially, are non-negative, monotone but lacks a combinatorial interpretation.
By combinatorial interpretation, they ...
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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:
$$
\ 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.
$$
For all terms of $A$ greater than $\ \...
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Conjecture about Euler quotients related to non-Wieferich numbers $W(n)=\frac{2^n+1}{3}$
For odd natural $n$ define the Euler quotient:
$$ a(n)=\frac{(2^{\phi(n)}-1) \bmod n^2}{n}=\frac{2^{\phi(n)}-1}{n} \bmod n$$
$a(n)=0$ is $n$ being Wieferich number (not necessarily prime).
For odd $n$,...
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A new Conjecture at OEIS sequence A376842
Here is a new conjecture of mine from the appendix of an unpublished manuscript currently under review.
Let $b \in \mathbb{Z}^+$ and assume that $n$ is an integer greater than $1$ and not a multiple ...
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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:
Let ...
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Initial conditions to falsify Rowland's conjecture
Based on the Rowland's paper (A natural prime-generating recurrence), is there any theorem to show that for which initial condition $a(1) = k$ the conjecture can be falsified?
For example, for $k$ ...
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How would one go about solving this conjecture concerning exponential Diophantine equations?
I’ve been working on the Collatz Conjecture, and I believe I’ve reduced it to a more tractable problem. Unless there are some errors I’ve overlooked, I have managed to reduce the Collatz Conjecture to ...
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