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Green's Open Problem 44

Sieve [N][N] by removing half the residue classes mod pip_i, for primes 2p1<p2<<p1000<N9/102 \leqslant p_1 < p_2 < \dots < p_{1000} < N^{9/10}. Does the remaining set have size at most 110N\frac{1}{10} N?

We interpret "half the residue classes" as pi/2\lfloor p_i / 2 \rfloor.

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Ben Green's Open Problem 46: Improve Lower

We conjecture that the best-known lower bound can be improved.

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Ben Green's Open Problem 46: Improve Upper

We conjecture that the best-known upper bound can be improved.

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Green's Open Problem 47

Suppose that a large sieve process leaves a set of quadratic size. Is that set quadratic?

The following very particular instance is probably the simplest [Gr24]: Suppose that ANA \subset \mathbb{N} is a set with the property that A(modp)12(p+1)|A \pmod p| \leqslant \frac{1}{2}(p + 1) for all sufficiently large pp. Is it true that either A[X]X1/2/log100X|A \cap [X]| \ll X^{1/2} / \log^{100} X, or AA is contained in the image of Z\mathbb{Z} under a quadratic map ϕ:QQ\phi : \mathbb{Q} \to \mathbb{Q}?

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Ben Green's Open Problem 60

Is there an absolute constant c>0c > 0 such that, whenever ANA ⊆ \mathbb{N} is a set of squares with A2|A| ≥ 2, the sumset A+AA + A satisfies A+AA1+c|A + A| ≥ |A|^{1 + c}?

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Ben Green's Open Problem 61

Suppose that A+AA + A contains the first nn squares. Is An1o(1)|A| \geq n^{1 - o(1)}?

It is known that necessarily An2/3o(1)|A| \geq n^{2/3 - o(1)}, whilst in the other direction there do exist such AA with ACn/logCn|A| \ll_C n / \log^C n for any CC.

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Ben Green's Open Problem 62

Let pp be a large prime, and let AA be the set of all primes less than pp. Is every x{1,,p1}x \in \{1, \ldots, p-1\} congruent to some product a1a2a_1 a_2 where a1,a2Aa_1, a_2 \in A?

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Ben Green's Open Problem 66

Is there always a sum of two squares between X110X1/4X - \frac{1}{10}X^{1/4} and XX? We formalize this as an eventual statement for sufficiently large real XX.

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Source labels openLitt's Problems · Number theory

Lam--Litt conjecture: Omega Integrality Implies Algebraicity

  1. implies 2): if the coefficients of ff satisfy the ω\omega-integrality condition for some superlinear ω\omega, then there exists NN such that for all nn, the nn-th coefficient of ff is in Z[1/N]\mathbb{Z}[1/N].
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Lam--Litt conjecture: Integrality Implies Algebraicity

  1. implies 1): if the coefficients of ff are in Z[1/N]\mathbb{Z}[1/N] for some NN, then ff is algebraic over Q[z]\mathbb{Q}[z]. Also the version of conjecture of Litt's problem 1 on his website.
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Source labels openMathOverflow · Number theory

17560

If 2x2^x and 3x3^x are integers, then xx must be an integer.

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Mathoverflow 75792

Is 2n the complexity of 2^n for 0 < n?

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Source labels openMillennium Problems · Number theory

Riemann Hypothesis and its generalizations

The Riemann Hypothesis: all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have real part 12\frac{1}{2}. That is, if ζ(s)=0\zeta(s) = 0, s1s \neq 1, and ss is not a trivial zero 2(n+1)-2(n+1) for some nNn \in \mathbb{N}, then Re(s)=12\operatorname{Re}(s) = \frac{1}{2}.

This is the official Millennium Prize Problem as posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

This uses the RiemannHypothesis type from Mathlib, which is defined as ∀ (s : ℂ), riemannZeta s = 0 → (¬∃ n : ℕ, s = -2 * (n + 1)) → s ≠ 1 → s.re = 1 / 2.

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Riemann Hypothesis and its generalizations

The Generalized Riemann Hypothesis asserts that all the non-trivial zeros of the Dirichlet LL-function L(χ,s)L(\chi, s) of a primitive Dirichlet character χ\chi have real part 12\frac{1}{2}.

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Source labels openOEIS · Number theory

Sum of two numbers with prime conditions

The conjecture for sequence A231201: for any n>1n > 1, there exist x,y>0x, y > 0 such that n=x+yn = x + y and 2x+y2^x + y is prime.

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Representations with prime conditions

*Zhi-Wei Sun's Conjecture (A232174)**: Any integer n>1n > 1 can be written as x+yx + y with x,y>0x, y > 0 such that both x+nyx + ny and x2+ny2x^2 + ny^2 are prime.

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Primitive roots of the form k² + 1

*Zhi-Wei Sun's Conjecture (A239957)**: Every prime pp has a primitive root 0<g<p0 < g < p of the form k2+1k^2 + 1, where kk is an integer.

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