Problems
Every problem posed by Paul Erdős, with its status, references, discussion and proof claims.
Every problem posed by Paul Erdős, with its status, references, discussion and proof claims.
494 of 1,221 problems match
Every problem posed by Paul Erdős, with its status, references, discussion and proof claims.
Asks whether every -coloring of the edges of , for , has vertices whose induced misses a color.
Asks to prove that , where is the least size such that some map from the subsets of an -element set to sends the subsets of every set that large onto .
Asks whether, for , the largest girth of an -vertex graph with chromatic number , divided by , tends to a limit.
Asks whether tends to a limit, where is the largest ratio of chromatic number to clique number over graphs on vertices.
Asks whether a graph with chromatic number and no must have two disjoint subgraphs of chromatic numbers and whenever and .
Asks for the least number of vertices of a bipartite graph whose list chromatic number exceeds ; open, with and known.
Asks whether, for each , large enough chromatic number forces an odd cycle whose vertices span a subgraph of chromatic number at least .
Asks whether a graph on vertices in which every cycle has more vertices than chords must have at most a constant times edges.
Asks to estimate how many edges force a -uniform hypergraph on vertices to have four edges with and .
Bounds the size of a set needed to meet every member of a family of -element sets in which any members are all met by one pair. The question is whether this size is asymptotically a constant times .
Asks whether some satisfies for every , where is the number of divisors of .
Asks to estimate how many distinct distances to the others some point must have, among any points in the plane with no four on a circle.
Asks whether planar points with no isosceles triangle must determine at least distinct distances, for some .
Asks whether the vertices of a convex polyhedron in always determine at least distinct distances.
Asks whether, for all large , two sets of planar points can have only distinct distances between the two sets.
Asks whether, for fixed and large , the least prime not dividing is less than .
Asks whether, for some constant and all large , there is a pairwise balanced design on (a family of sets in which every pair of distinct elements lies in exactly one set) whose sets all have more than elements.
Asks whether , the growth exponent of the largest clique forced when every vertices span at least edges, is strictly increasing in . Open; the 1997 source gives bounds at the endpoints and a disputed upper bound near the top.
Asks whether the number of incongruent -point planar sets maximizing the number of unit distances tends to infinity, and whether it exceeds for every .
Asks for bounds on how many lines can pass through at least , or through exactly , of points in the plane.
Asks whether points in whose pairwise distances all differ by at least must have diameter at least .
Asks whether the product of positive terms of an arithmetic progression with can be a perfect power.
Asks which sets of integers, such as the sums of two squares, have the translation property: for every , some shift leaves membership of each unchanged.