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 a graph with at most edge-disjoint triangles can be made triangle-free by deleting at most edges (Tuza's conjecture). It is open, the erdosproblems.com label was falsifiable, and Haxell's is the best refereed constant.
Asks for , where is the size of the largest subset of containing no set , and whether this limit is irrational.
Asks for estimates of , the supremum of over sets of positive integers with no -term arithmetic progression, and whether , where is the van der Waerden number.
Asks for the value of , where is the smallest size of a set with .
Asks for the smallest such that one function has for every and every finite arithmetic progression with common difference .
Asks for the best such that every -coloring of the integers has, for infinitely many , a monochromatic arithmetic progression of difference and length . Beck (1980) gives , and no usable lower bound is known.
Asks for the least such that the plane can be colored red and blue with no two red points at unit distance and no blue -term progression with step . If the step is left free, Erdős and Graham's question has no finite answer.
Asks for the largest such that every permutation of the integers contains a monotone -term arithmetic progression.
Asks whether the positive integers can be split into two sets, each of which can be permuted to avoid monotone three-term arithmetic progressions.
Asks whether the longest arithmetic progression of primes in has length .
Asks how large a subset free of -term arithmetic progressions can be guaranteed in any set of integers, and how that size compares with the case of .
Asks whether the gap after the squarefree number is for every , and whether it is at most .
Asks whether the plane contains a dense set of points all of whose pairwise distances are rational.
Asks whether, for every , there are points in the plane, no three on a line and no four on a circle, with all pairwise distances integers.
Asks for which there are points in the plane, no three on a line and no four on a circle, that determine distinct distances, the th of which occurs times.
Asks whether the with and those with each have density , where , and whether for infinitely many .
Asks for good upper and lower bounds on the gaps between consecutive integers that are sums of two squares.
Asks whether, for every , the density of integers with exists and is a continuous function of .
Asks whether the number of solutions of , with prime and , satisfies .
Asks whether, for any and all large , there are more than consecutive primes whose pairwise differences all exceed .
Asks whether the largest subset of whose triple sums are all distinct has size asymptotic to .
Asks whether every increasing integer sequence with and rational must satisfy for all large .
Asks whether, for , the integers of the form , with prime and , have positive density.