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De Giorgi's conjecture

De Giorgi's conjecture holds in dimension n=7n = 7.

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Source labels openPapers · General topology

Conjectures about Weakly First Countable spaces

Problem 2 in [Ar2013]: Give an example in ZFC of a weakly first- countable compact Hausdorff space X such that 𝔠<X𝔠 < |X|.

Note: [Ar2013] uses a blanket convention that all spaces are Tychonoff and "compact" means compact Hausdorff.

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De Giorgi's conjecture

De Giorgi's conjecture holds in dimension n=8n = 8.

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Conjectures about Weakly First Countable spaces

Problem 3 in [Ar2013]: Give an example in ZFC of a weakly first- countable compact Hausdorff space which is not first countable.

Note: [Ar2013] uses a blanket convention that all spaces are Tychonoff and "compact" means compact Hausdorff.

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Chvátal's Conjecture

If F is a decreasing family of sets of some finite type α, then there is some element x of α such that the family consisting of all members of F containing x is an intersecting subfamily of F with maximal cardinality.

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Claude's Cycles

For even m > 2, it is open whether the cube digraph on (ZMod m)³ has a Hamiltonian arc decomposition.

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Main conjecture on fusible numbers

If x is a fusible number and y is its successor, then the interval [x + 1, y + 1) can be divided into intervals [ℓₙ, ℓₙ₊₁), such that the fusible numbers in [ℓₙ, ℓₙ₊₁) are obtained by fusing the n + 1st successor of x with a fusible number. This formalization differs from Conjecture 7.1 in the paper in four ways: (1) it is obtained from Conjecture 7.1 by plugging in n + 1 into n, which simplifies the expressions and removes the need to assume n ≥ 1; (2) the n + 1st successor s^(n+1)(x) is replaced by the explicit value x + (2 - 1 / 2 ^ n) * m; (3) instead of defining y to be the successor of x, we assert that there is no fusible number strictly between x and y; (4) instead of using ∃ z, IsFusible z ∧ q = s^(n+1)(x) ~ z we use the value of z determined by the equality, namely z = 2 * q - 1 - s^(n+1)(x), and it is easy to see z ∈ [x + 1 - m / 2 ^ n, x + 1) as required.

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Kotzig's Conjecture

For any tree TT with nn edges, the complete graph K2n+1K_{2n+1} decomposes into 2n+12n+1 edge-disjoint copies of TT via cyclic shifts of a single embedding.

The 2n+12n+1 copies are f0,f1,,f2nf_0, f_1, \dots, f_{2n} where fi(v)=f0(v)+if_i(v) = f_0(v) + i for all vertices vv , each copy is obtained by adding i(mod2n+1)i \pmod{2n+1} to every vertex of the base copy. This is strictly stronger than RingelConjecture.ringel_conjecture.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

Conjecture 3.2 in [Wa2011]: Each Latin square of odd order has at least one transversal.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

The smallest odd number for which this conjecture is not known is 11.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

Conjecture 5.1 in [Wa2011]: Every latin square has a near-transversal

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

Conjecture 6.7 in [Wa2011]: There exist real constants 0<c1<c2<10 < c_1 < c_2 < 1 such that

c1nn!znc2nn!c_1^n n! \leq z_n \leq c_2^n n!

for all odd n3n \geq 3.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

Conjecture 6.9 in [Wa2011]:

limnn odd1nlog(zn/n!)=1\lim_{\substack{n \to \infty \\ n \text{ odd}}} \frac{1}{n} \log(z_n / n!) = -1

It is not even known if this limit exists. Note that zn=0z_n = 0 for even nn (see z_even), so the limit must be restricted to odd nn; here we parametrise odd nn as 2k+12k + 1.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

MOLS existence problem: determine exactly which orders n admit a complete set of n - 1 mutually orthogonal latin squares.

Equivalently, this asks for which orders affine planes of order n exist. Complete sets are known for prime-power orders; the smallest currently unresolved order is 12.

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Conjectures about Latin Squares

The smallest unresolved case of the MOLS existence problem: whether there are 11 mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 12.

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Latin Tableau Conjecture

The Latin Tableau Conjecture: If G is the simple graph of a Young diagram, then G is CDS-colorable.

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Monochromatic quantum graphs (inherited vertex colorings)

For N=6N = 6 and D=3D = 3, does there exist no solution to the monochromatic quantum graph equation system over C\mathbb{C}?

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Monochromatic quantum graphs (inherited vertex colorings)

For N=6N = 6 and D=4D = 4, does there exist no solution to the monochromatic quantum graph equation system over C\mathbb{C}?

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Monochromatic quantum graphs (inherited vertex colorings)

For N=6N = 6 and D=5D = 5, does there exist no solution to the monochromatic quantum graph equation system over C\mathbb{C}?

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