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61 votes

Math paper authors' order

49 votes

Elegant proof that any closed, oriented 3-manifold is the boundary of some oriented 4-manifold?

45 votes

Maps inducing zero on homotopy groups but are not null-homotopic

41 votes

What part is left unsolved in the Unknotting problem? (after results of Bar-Natan, Khovanov, Kronheimer and Mrowka)

27 votes
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Usefulness of using TQFTs

25 votes
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Who thought that the Alexander polynomial was the only knot invariant of its kind?

24 votes

What part is left unsolved in the Unknotting problem? (after results of Bar-Natan, Khovanov, Kronheimer and Mrowka)

20 votes
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Does this knot invariant distinguish trefoil chiralities?

18 votes

What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?

16 votes

Why is a 2d TQFT formulated as a functor?

15 votes
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Request: intermediate-level proof: every 2-homology class of a 4-manifold is generated by a surface.

14 votes

Examples of major theorems with very hard proofs that have not dramatically improved over time

12 votes
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Maslov index and Heegard Floer homology

11 votes
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Is the center of gravity in a CAT(0) space contained in the convex hull?

11 votes
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The preimage of the boundary morphism in the Mayer-Vietoris sequence

10 votes

HOMFLY and homology; also superalgebras

10 votes
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Wanted: differential coming from higher genus surface in Heegaard Floer homology

9 votes
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How many edge-disjoint paths go from upper left to lower right in a $4 \times N$ rectangular gridwork of streets?

8 votes
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Using higher-order Bring radicals to solve arbitrary polynomials

8 votes
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Area-preserving map between rectangles and fat polygons

8 votes
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Residual Finiteness of Fundamental Group of Compact 3-Manifold

8 votes

Details for the action of the braid group B_3 on modular forms

8 votes

What are the points of Spec(Vassiliev Invariants)?

8 votes
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Heegaard Floer homology of a genus two Heegaard splitting of $S^3$

7 votes

4-polytope with vertices at the binary octahedral group

7 votes
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Upper half plane quotient by a discrete group

6 votes

Stable graphs: Feynman diagrams and Deligne-Mumford space

6 votes

central extensions of Diff(S^1) and of the semigroup of annuli

6 votes

Do the results of (1/n)-surgery determine the link?...

6 votes
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Thickening graphs to get honest actions