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==Open problems== The following conjectures remain open. The (incomplete) column "cites" lists the number of results for a [[Google Scholar]] search for the term, in double quotes {{as of|lc=y|September 2022}}. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; border:none;" |- !Conjecture !Field !Comments !Eponym(s) !Cites |- |[[1/3â2/3 conjecture]]||order theory|| ||n/a || 70 |- |[[abc conjecture]]||number theory||âGranvilleâLangevin conjecture, [[Vojta's conjecture]] in dimension 1<br>â[[ErdĆsâWoods conjecture]], [[FermatâCatalan conjecture]]<br>Formulated by [[David Masser]] and [[Joseph OesterlĂ©]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisstein |first1=Eric W. |title=CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics |date=2002 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781420035223 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_XKBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref><br>Proof claimed in 2012 by [[Shinichi Mochizuki]]||n/a || 2440 |- |[[AgohâGiuga conjecture]]||number theory|| ||Takashi Agoh and Giuseppe Giuga ||8 |- |[[Agrawal's conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Manindra Agrawal]] || 10 |- |[[AndrewsâCurtis conjecture]]||combinatorial group theory|| ||[[James J. Andrews (mathematician)|James J. Andrews]] and [[Morton L. Curtis]] || 358 |- |[[Andrica's conjecture]]||number theory|| || Dorin Andrica || 45 |- |[[Artin conjecture (L-functions)]]||number theory|| || [[Emil Artin]] || 650 |- |[[Artin's conjecture on primitive roots]]||number theory||â[[generalized Riemann hypothesis]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frei |first1=GĂŒnther |last2=Lemmermeyer |first2=Franz |last3=Roquette |first3=Peter J. |title=Emil Artin and Helmut Hasse: The Correspondence 1923-1958 |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783034807159 |page=215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6rDBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 |language=en}}</ref><br>â[[Selberg conjecture B]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steuding |first1=Jörn |last2=Morel |first2=J.-M. |last3=Steuding |first3=JrÌČn |title=Value-Distribution of L-Functions |date=2007 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783540265269 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzUxpU-PXVoC&pg=PA118 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Emil Artin]] || 325 |- |[[BatemanâHorn conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Paul T. Bateman]] and [[Roger Horn]] || 245 |- |[[BaumâConnes conjecture]]||operator K-theory||â[[Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture]]<ref name="Valette">{{cite book |last1=Valette |first1=Alain |title=Introduction to the Baum-Connes Conjecture |date=2002 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783764367060 |page=viii |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRWjukxro3oC&pg=PR8 |language=en}}</ref><br>â[[Kaplansky-Kadison conjecture]]<ref name="Valette"/><br>â[[Novikov conjecture]]<ref name="Valette"/>||[[Paul Baum (mathematician)|Paul Baum]] and [[Alain Connes]] || 2670 |- |[[Beal's conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Andrew Beal]] || 142 |- |[[Beilinson conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Alexander Beilinson]] || 461 |- |[[Quantum chaos#BerryâTabor conjecture|BerryâTabor conjecture]]||geodesic flow|| ||[[Michael Berry (physicist)|Michael Berry]] and Michael Tabor || 239 |- |[[Big-line-big-clique conjecture]]||discrete geometry|| || || |- |[[Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Bryan John Birch]] and [[Peter Swinnerton-Dyer]] || 2830 |- |[[BirchâTate conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Bryan John Birch]] and [[John Tate (mathematician)|John Tate]] || 149 |- |[[Birkhoff conjecture]]||integrable systems|| || [[George David Birkhoff]] || 345 |- |[[BlochâBeilinson conjectures]]||number theory|| ||[[Spencer Bloch]] and [[Alexander Beilinson]] || 152 |- |[[BlochâKato conjecture]]||algebraic K-theory|| ||[[Spencer Bloch]] and [[Kazuya Kato]] || 1620 |- |[[BochnerâRiesz conjecture]]||harmonic analysis|| ârestriction conjectureâ[[Kakeya maximal function conjecture]]â[[Kakeya dimension conjecture]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Barry |title=Harmonic Analysis |date=2015 |publisher=American Mathematical Soc. |isbn=9781470411022 |page=685 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkUACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA685 |language=en}}</ref>||[[Salomon Bochner]] and [[Marcel Riesz]] || 236 |- |[[BombieriâLang conjecture]]||diophantine geometry|| ||[[Enrico Bombieri]] and [[Serge Lang]] || 181 |- |[[Borel conjecture]]||geometric topology|| ||[[Armand Borel]] || 981 |- |[[Farrell-Jones conjecture#Bost conjecture|Bost conjecture]]||geometric topology|| || [[Jean-BenoĂźt Bost]] || 65 |- |[[Brennan conjecture]]||complex analysis|| || James E. Brennan || 110 |- |[[Brocard's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Henri Brocard]] || 16 |- |[[BrumerâStark conjecture]]||number theory|| || Armand Brumer and [[Harold Stark]] || 208 |- |[[Bunyakovsky conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Viktor Bunyakovsky]] || 43 |- |[[CarathĂ©odory conjecture]]||differential geometry|| || [[Constantin CarathĂ©odory]] || 173 |- |[[Carmichael totient conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Robert Daniel Carmichael]] || |- |[[Casas-Alvero conjecture]]||polynomials|| || Eduardo Casas-Alvero || 56 |- |[[Aliquot sequence|CatalanâDickson conjecture on aliquot sequences]]||number theory|| || [[EugĂšne Charles Catalan]] and [[Leonard Eugene Dickson]] || 46 |- |[[Catalan's Mersenne conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[EugĂšne Charles Catalan]]|| |- |[[CherlinâZilber conjecture]]||group theory|| || Gregory Cherlin and [[Boris Zilber]] || 86 |- |[[Chowla conjecture]]||Möbius function||â[[Sarnak conjecture]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tao |first1=Terence |title=The Chowla conjecture and the Sarnak conjecture |url=https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-chowla-conjecture-and-the-sarnak-conjecture/ |website=What's new |language=en |date=15 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ferenczi |first1=SĂ©bastien |last2=KuĆaga-Przymus |first2=Joanna |last3=LemaĆczyk |first3=Mariusz |title=Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems in their Interactions with Arithmetics and Combinatorics: CIRM Jean-Morlet Chair, Fall 2016 |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319749082 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wSpgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 |language=en}}</ref> ||[[Sarvadaman Chowla]] || |- |[[Collatz conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Lothar Collatz]] || 1440 |- |[[CramĂ©r's conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Harald CramĂ©r]] || 32 |- |[[Conway's thrackle conjecture]]||graph theory|| ||[[John Horton Conway]] || 150 |- |[[Deligne conjecture]]||monodromy|| ||[[Pierre Deligne]] || 788 |- |[[Dittert conjecture]]||combinatorics|| || Eric Dittert || 11 |- |[[EilenbergâGanea conjecture]]||algebraic topology|| || [[Samuel Eilenberg]] and [[Tudor Ganea]] || 96 |- |[[ElliottâHalberstam conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Peter D. T. A. Elliott]] and [[Heini Halberstam]] || 300 |- |[[ErdĆsâFaberâLovĂĄsz conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[Paul ErdĆs]], [[Vance Faber]], and [[LĂĄszlĂł LovĂĄsz]] || 172 |- |[[ErdĆsâGyĂĄrfĂĄs conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[Paul ErdĆs]] and [[AndrĂĄs GyĂĄrfĂĄs]] || 37 |- |[[ErdĆsâStraus conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Paul ErdĆs]] and [[Ernst G. Straus]] || 103 |- |[[FarrellâJones conjecture]]||geometric topology|| || [[F. Thomas Farrell]] and [[Lowell E. Jones]] || 545 |- |[[Filling area conjecture]]||differential geometry|| ||n/a || 60 |- |[[Firoozbakht's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Farideh Firoozbakht]] || 33 |- |[[Fortune's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Reo Fortune]] || 16 |- |[[Four exponentials conjecture]]||number theory|| ||n/a || 110 |- |[[Frankl conjecture]]||combinatorics|| || [[PĂ©ter Frankl]] || 83 |- |[[Gauss circle problem]]||number theory|| || [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] || 553 |- |[[GilbertâPollack conjecture on the Steiner ratio of the Euclidean plane]]||metric geometry|| || [[Edgar Gilbert]] and [[Henry O. Pollak]] || |- |[[Gilbreath conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Norman Laurence Gilbreath]] || 34 |- |[[Goldbach's conjecture]]||number theory||âThe [[ternary Goldbach conjecture]], which was the original formulation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisstein |first1=Eric W. |title=CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics |date=2002 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781420035223 |page=1203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_XKBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1203 |language=en}}</ref> ||[[Christian Goldbach]] || 5880 |- |[[1/3â2/3 conjecture#Generalizations and related results|Gold partition conjecture]]<ref>M. Peczarski, The gold partition conjecture, it Order 23(2006): 89â95.</ref>||order theory|| ||n/a || 25 |- |[[GoldbergâSeymour conjecture]]||graph theory|| || Mark K. Goldberg and [[Paul Seymour (mathematician)|Paul Seymour]] || 57 |- |[[Goormaghtigh conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[RenĂ© Goormaghtigh]] || 14 |- |[[Green's conjecture]]||algebraic curves|| || [[Mark Lee Green]] || 150 |- |[[Grimm's conjecture]]||number theory|| || Carl Albert Grimm || 46 |- |[[GrothendieckâKatz p-curvature conjecture]]||differential equations|| ||[[Alexander Grothendieck]] and [[Nick Katz]] || 98 |- |[[Hadamard conjecture]]||combinatorics|| || [[Jacques Hadamard]] || 858 |- |[[HerzogâSchönheim conjecture]]||group theory|| || Marcel Herzog and Jochanan Schönheim || 44 |- |[[HilbertâSmith conjecture]]||geometric topology|| || [[David Hilbert]] and [[Paul Althaus Smith]] || 219 |- |[[Hodge conjecture]]||algebraic geometry|| || [[W. V. D. Hodge]] || 2490 |- |[[Homological conjectures in commutative algebra]]||commutative algebra|| ||n/a || |- |[[Hopf conjecture]]s||geometry|| ||[[Heinz Hopf]] || 476 |- | [[IbragimovâIosifescu conjecture for Ï-mixing sequences]]||probability theory|| ||[[Ildar Ibragimov]], [[:ro:Marius Iosifescu]] || |- |[[Invariant subspace problem]]||functional analysis|| ||n/a || 2120 |- |[[Jacobian conjecture]]||polynomials|| || [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] (by way of the [[Jacobian matrix and determinant|Jacobian determinant]]) || 2860 |- |[[Jacobson's conjecture]]||ring theory|| ||[[Nathan Jacobson]] || 127 |- |[[Kaplansky conjecture]]s||ring theory|| ||[[Irving Kaplansky]] || 466 |- |[[KeatingâSnaith conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Jonathan Keating]] and [[Nina Snaith]] || 48 |- |[[Köthe conjecture]]||ring theory|| || [[Gottfried Köthe]] || 167 |- |[[KungâTraub conjecture]]||iterative methods|| || [[H. T. Kung]] and [[Joseph F. Traub]] || 332 |- |[[Legendre's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]] || 110 |- |[[Lemoine's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Ămile Lemoine]] || 13 |- |[[LenstraâPomeranceâWagstaff conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Hendrik Lenstra]], [[Carl Pomerance]], and [[Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.]] || 32 |- |[[Leopoldt's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt]] || 773 <!-- match without 's --> |- |[[List coloring conjecture]]||graph theory|| ||n/a || 300 <!-- including colour --> |- |[[Littlewood conjecture]]||diophantine approximation||â[[Margulis conjecture]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burger |first1=Marc |last2=Iozzi |first2=Alessandra|author2-link=Alessandra Iozzi |title=Rigidity in Dynamics and Geometry: Contributions from the Programme Ergodic Theory, Geometric Rigidity and Number Theory, Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Cambridge, United Kingdom, 5 January â 7 July 2000 |date=2013 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9783662047439 |page=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJ7zCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA408 |language=en}}</ref> ||[[John Edensor Littlewood]] || 1230 |- |[[LovĂĄsz conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[LĂĄszlĂł LovĂĄsz]] || 560 |- |[[MNOP conjecture]]||algebraic geometry|| ||n/a || 63 |- |[[Manin conjecture]]||diophantine geometry|| ||[[Yuri Manin]] || 338 |- |[[Marshall Hall's conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Marshall Hall, Jr.]] || 44 <!-- results ("Hall's conjecture" cube) --> |- |[[Mazur's conjectures]]||diophantine geometry|| || [[Barry Mazur]] || 97 |- |[[Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[Hugh Lowell Montgomery]] || 77 |- |[[n conjecture]]||number theory|| ||n/a || 126 <!-- results for ("n conjecture" coprime) --> |- |[[New Mersenne conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Marin Mersenne]] || 47 |- |[[Novikov conjecture]]||algebraic topology|| ||[[Sergei Novikov (mathematician)|Sergei Novikov]] || 3090 |- |[[Oppermann's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Ludvig Oppermann]] || 12 |- |[[Petersen graph#Petersen coloring conjecture|Petersen coloring conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[Julius Petersen]] || 52 |- |[[PierceâBirkhoff conjecture]]||real algebraic geometry|| || Richard S. Pierce and [[Garrett Birkhoff]] || 96 |- |[[Pillai's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai]] || 33 |- |[[De Polignac's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Alphonse de Polignac]] || 46 |- |[[Quantum PCP conjecture]]||quantum information theory|| || || |- |[[quantum unique ergodicity conjecture]]||dynamical systems|| 2004, [[Elon Lindenstrauss]], for arithmetic [[hyperbolic surface]]s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.kth.se/4ecm/prizes.ecm.html|title=EMS Prizes|website=www.math.kth.se}}</ref> 2008, [[Kannan Soundararajan]] & [[Roman Holowinsky]], for [[holomorphic form]]s of increasing weight for [[Hecke eigenform]]s on noncompact [[arithmetic surface]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://matematikkforeningen.no/INFOMAT/08/0810.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-12-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724181506/http://matematikkforeningen.no/INFOMAT/08/0810.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-24 }}</ref>||n/a || 281 |- |[[Reconstruction conjecture]]||graph theory|| ||n/a || 1040 |- |[[Riemann hypothesis]]||number theory||â[[Generalized Riemann hypothesis]]â[[Grand Riemann hypothesis]]<br>â[[De BruijnâNewman constant]]=0<br>â[[density hypothesis]], [[Lindelöf hypothesis]]<br>See [[HilbertâPĂłlya conjecture]]. For other ''Riemann hypotheses'', see the [[Weil conjectures]] (now theorems).||[[Bernhard Riemann]]||24900 |- |[[RingelâKotzig conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[Gerhard Ringel]] and [[Anton Kotzig]] || 187 |- |[[Rudin's conjecture]]||additive combinatorics|| ||[[Walter Rudin]] || 16 |- |[[Sarnak conjecture]]||topological entropy|| ||[[Peter Sarnak]] || 295 |- |[[SatoâTate conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Mikio Sato]] and [[John Tate (mathematician)|John Tate]] || 1080 |- |[[Schanuel's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Stephen Schanuel]] || 329 |- |[[Schinzel's hypothesis H]]||number theory|| ||[[Andrzej Schinzel]] || 49 |- |[[Scholz conjecture]]||addition chains|| || [[Arnold Scholz]] || 41 |- |[[Second HardyâLittlewood conjecture]]||number theory|| ||[[G. H. Hardy]] and [[John Edensor Littlewood]] || 30 |- |[[Selfridge's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[John Selfridge]] || 6 |- |[[Sendov's conjecture]]||complex polynomials|| || [[Blagovest Sendov]] || 77 |- |[[Serre's multiplicity conjectures]]||commutative algebra|| ||[[Jean-Pierre Serre]] || 221 <!-- results for ("Serre's conjecture" multiplicity) --> |- |[[Singmaster's conjecture]]||binomial coefficients|| ||[[David Singmaster]] || 8 |- |[[Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles]]||algebraic geometry|| ||n/a || 234 <!-- most citations of a book of that name --> |- |[[Tate conjecture]]||algebraic geometry|| || [[John Tate (mathematician)|John Tate]] || |- |[[Toeplitz' conjecture]]||Jordan curves|| || [[Otto Toeplitz]] || |- |[[Tuza's conjecture]]||graph theory|| ||Zsolt Tuza|| |- |[[Twin prime]] conjecture||number theory|| ||n/a ||1700 |- |[[Ulam's packing conjecture]]||packing|| || [[Stanislaw Ulam]] || |- |Unicity conjecture for [[Markov number]]s||number theory|| || [[Andrey Markov]] (by way of [[Markov number]]s) || |- |[[Uniformity conjecture]]||diophantine geometry|| ||n/a || |- |[[Unique games conjecture]]||number theory|| ||n/a || |- |[[Vandiver's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Ernst Kummer]] and [[Harry Vandiver]] || |- |[[Virasoro conjecture]]||algebraic geometry|| || [[Miguel Ăngel Virasoro (physicist)|Miguel Ăngel Virasoro]] || |- |[[Vizing's conjecture]]||graph theory|| || [[Vadim G. Vizing]] || |- |[[Vojta's conjecture]]||number theory||â[[abc conjecture]] ||[[Paul Vojta]] || |- |[[Waring's conjecture]]||number theory|| || [[Edward Waring]] || |- |[[Weight monodromy conjecture]]||algebraic geometry|| ||n/a || |- |[[Weinstein conjecture]]||periodic orbits|| || [[Alan Weinstein]] || |- |[[Whitehead conjecture]]||algebraic topology|| || [[J. H. C. Whitehead]] || |- |[[Zauner's conjecture]]||operator theory|| || Gerhard Zauner || |}
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