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, for each graph , there is such that every graph on vertices with no induced copy of has a clique or an independent set of size at least .
Asks whether any two graphs of chromatic number must share a common subgraph of chromatic number , or even .
Asks whether every finite graph with minimum degree at least contains a cycle of length for some .
Asks whether the reciprocals of the distinct cycle lengths of a graph with vertices and edges sum to , and whether a complete bipartite graph minimizes that sum.
Asks whether some has its number of representations , divided by , tending to a nonzero limit.
Asks whether the order type of the real line satisfies for every countable ordinal and every finite .
Asks whether some graph with vertices and chromatic number has, for every and all large , an independent set of size in each -vertex subgraph, and asks the same for size .
Asks for the value of , where is the Ramsey number of ; the limit is not known to exist.
Asks for a constructive proof that for some constant , or equivalently for an explicit graph on vertices with clique and independence numbers .
Asks to estimate , the largest book (an edge in many triangles) forced in an -vertex graph with at least edges, each in a triangle. It is open: the question whether for some was answered no, and the question whether is open.
Asks whether , where is the size of the largest regular induced subgraph guaranteed in every graph on vertices.
Asks whether the number of cycle sets of graphs on vertices is , and whether .
Asks whether the least minimum degree forcing a in an -vertex graph satisfies for all large . It is open, and the equivalent star Ramsey numbers are known exactly only for small and near prime-power squares.
Asks whether every subgraph of the -dimensional hypercube with at least edges, slightly more than half of all its edges, must contain a .
Asks whether, for each and all large , every graph with has , or even for a fixed . Erdős's original conjecture, , fails at .
Asks whether every set of distinct points in the plane determines distinct distances.
Asks whether, for large , there are at least two non-similar -point sets in the plane that minimize the number of distinct distances.
Asks whether the least number of distinct distances among points in the plane, with no three on a line and no four on a circle, satisfies .
Asks whether, for all large , an -point set in the plane with minimum distance and the smallest possible diameter must contain three points forming an equilateral triangle of side .
Asks whether points in the plane whose pairwise distances are at least , and whose distinct distances differ by at least , must have diameter .
Asks whether points in the plane, no five on a line, determine only lines containing exactly four of them.
Asks how many collinear points are forced when points in the plane determine at least lines with more than three points each, and whether this number tends to infinity for fixed .
Asks whether the number of incongruent -point sets in the plane with minimum distance and the least possible diameter tends to infinity.
Asks whether points in the plane lie on only distinct unit circles that each contain at least three of them.