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List of conjectures

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This is a list of mathematical conjectures.

Contents

Open problems

  • 1/3–2/3 conjecture
  • abc conjecture (proof claimed by Shinichi Mochizuki)
  • Agoh–Giuga conjecture
  • Agrawal's conjecture
  • Andrews–Curtis conjecture
  • Andrica's conjecture
  • Artin conjecture (L-functions)
  • Artin's conjecture on primitive roots
  • Bateman–Horn conjecture
  • Baum–Connes conjecture
  • Beal's conjecture
  • Beilinson conjecture
  • Berry–Tabor conjecture
  • Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
  • Birch–Tate conjecture
  • Birkhoff conjecture
  • Bloch–Beilinson conjectures
  • Bloch–Kato conjecture
  • Bombieri-Lang conjecture
  • Borel conjecture
  • Bost conjecture
  • Brocard's conjecture
  • Brumer–Stark conjecture
  • Bunyakovsky conjecture
  • Carathéodory conjecture
  • Carmichael totient conjecture
  • Casas-Alvero conjecture
  • Catalan–Dickson conjecture on aliquot sequences
  • Catalan's Mersenne conjecture
  • Cherlin–Zilber conjecture
  • Collatz conjecture
  • Cramér's conjecture
  • Conway's thrackle conjecture
  • Deligne conjecture in monodromy
  • Eilenberg−Ganea conjecture
  • Elliott–Halberstam conjecture
  • Erdős–Burr conjecture
  • Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture
  • Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture
  • Erdős–Straus conjecture
  • Farrell–Jones conjecture
  • Filling area conjecture
  • Firoozbakht's conjecture
  • Fortune's conjecture
  • Frankl conjecture
  • Gauss circle problem
  • Gilbreath conjecture
  • Giuga's conjecture
  • Goldbach's conjecture
  • Goldbach's weak conjecture (proof claimed by Harald Helfgott)
  • Gold partition conjecture
  • Goormaghtigh conjecture
  • Green's conjecture
  • Grimm's conjecture
  • Grothendieck–Katz p-curvature conjecture
  • Guralnick–Thompson conjecture (Riemann surfaces)
  • Hadamard conjecture
  • Hedetniemi's conjecture
  • Herzog–Schönheim conjecture
  • Hilbert–Smith conjecture
  • Hodge conjecture
  • Homological conjectures in commutative algebra
  • Hopf conjecture
  • Invariant subspace problem
  • Jacobian conjecture
  • Jacobson's conjecture
  • Kakeya conjectures
  • Kakeya needle problem
  • Kaplansky conjecture
  • Keating–Snaith conjecture
  • Köthe conjecture
  • Kung-Traub conjecture
  • Lawson's conjecture
  • Lemoine's conjecture
  • Lenstra–Pomerance–Wagstaff conjecture
  • Leopoldt's conjecture
  • Lichtenbaum conjecture
  • List coloring conjecture
  • Littlewood conjecture
  • Lovász conjecture
  • MNOP conjecture
  • Manin conjecture
  • Marshall Hall's conjecture
  • Mazur's conjectures
  • Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture
  • n conjecture
  • Nagata's conjecture on automorphisms
  • New Mersenne conjecture
  • Nirenberg–Treves conjecture
  • Novikov conjecture
  • Oppermann's conjecture
  • Petersen coloring conjecture
  • Pierce–Birkhoff conjecture
  • Pillai's conjecture
  • De Polignac's conjecture
  • quantum unique ergodicity conjecture, (2004, Elon Lindenstrauss, for arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces, 2008, Kannan Soundararajan & Roman Holowinsky, for holomorphic forms of increasing weight for Hecke eigenforms on noncompact arithmetic surfaces )
  • Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture
  • Reconstruction conjecture
  • Riemann Hypotheses: see also Weil conjectures under Theorems
  • Riemann hypothesis
  • Generalized Riemann hypothesis
  • Grand Riemann hypothesis
  • Density hypothesis
  • Lindelöf hypothesis
  • Hilbert–Pólya conjecture on the Riemann hypothesis
  • Ringel-Kotzig conjecture
  • Sato–Tate conjecture
  • Schanuel's conjecture
  • Schinzel's hypothesis H
  • Scholz conjecture
  • Second Hardy–Littlewood conjecture
  • Selfridge's conjecture
  • Sendov's conjecture
  • Serre's multiplicity conjectures
  • Singmaster's conjecture
  • Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles
  • Tate conjecture
  • Toeplitz' conjecture
  • Twin prime conjecture
  • Ulam's packing conjecture
  • Unicity conjecture for Markov numbers
  • Uniformity conjecture
  • Vandiver's conjecture
  • Vizing's conjecture
  • Waring's conjecture
  • Weight-monodromy conjecture
  • Weinstein conjecture
  • Whitehead conjecture
  • Zauner's conjecture
  • Zhou conjecture
  • Proved (now theorems)

    The theorems may not be their official names.

  • Adams conjecture (J-homomorphism)
  • Andrews–Curtis conjecture
  • Angel problem (several proofs, 2007)
  • Bieberbach conjecture, 1916 (De Branges' theorem, 1984)
  • Blattner's conjecture (Blattner formula)
  • Bounded gap conjecture (Zhang Yitang, 2013)
  • Burnside conjecture (Feit–Thompson theorem)
  • Cameron–Erdős conjecture
  • Catalan's conjecture, 1844 (Mihăilescu's theorem, 2002)
  • Circular law (proved in 2010)
  • Conway–Norton conjecture (monstrous moonshine)
  • Dinitz conjecture (Galvin's theorem)
  • Deligne's conjecture on 1-motives
  • Denjoy's conjecture
  • Dodecahedral conjecture (Hales–McLaughlin theorem)
  • Ehrenpreis conjecture (proved in 2011)
  • Epsilon conjecture (Ribet's theorem)
  • Fermat's Last Theorem (Andrew Wiles' proof in 1994)
  • Four color theorem (Appel and Haken, 1976)
  • Frobenius conjecture (Iiyori and Yamaki)
  • Gradient conjecture (Kurdyka–Mostowski–Parusinski theorem)
  • Hanna Neumann conjecture (proved in 2011)
  • Heawood conjecture (Ringel–Youngs' theorem)
  • Kadison–Singer problem (Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava theorem)
  • Kepler conjecture (proved in 1998)
  • Kummer's conjecture on cubic Gauss sums (Kummer sum)
  • Mahler–Manin conjecture
  • Main conjecture in Vinogradov's mean-value theorem (Bourgain–Demeter–Guth theorem)
  • Manin–Mumford conjecture (Raynaud's theorem)
  • Milnor conjecture (Voevodsky's theorem)
  • Mordell conjecture (Faltings' theorem)
  • Mumford conjecture (Haboush's theorem)
  • n! conjecture (proved in 2001)
  • Poincaré conjecture, 1904 (theorem about the characterization of the three-dimensional sphere)
  • Oppenheim conjecture (Margulis' theorem)
  • Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture (consequence of the proof of the Weil conjectures)
  • Road coloring conjecture, 1970 (2008)
  • Scheinerman's conjecture (proved 2009)
  • Segal's Burnside ring conjecture (Carlsson theorem)
  • Serre's conjecture (Quillen–Suslin theorem)
  • Serre's modularity conjecture (proved 2008)
  • Seymour's conjecture
  • Smith conjecture (Gordon's theorem)
  • Stanley–Wilf conjecture (Marcus–Tardos theorem)
  • Star height problem (Hashiguchi theorem)
  • Strong perfect graph conjecture (Chudnovsky–Robertson–Seymour–Thomas theorem)
  • Sullivan conjecture
  • Surface subgroup conjecture (proved in 2009)
  • Tameness conjecture (Agol or Calegari–Gabai theorem)
  • Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (Modularity theorem)
  • Thurston's geometrization conjecture (3-manifolds of the uniformization theorem for surfaces)
  • Wagner's conjecture (Robertson–Seymour theorem)
  • Weil conjectures (Deligne's theorems)
  • Willmore conjecture (proved in 2012)
  • Disproved (no longer conjectures)

  • Atiyah conjecture (not a conjecture to start with)
  • Borsuk's conjecture
  • Chinese hypothesis (not a conjecture to start with)
  • Euler's sum of powers conjecture
  • Ganea conjecture
  • Generalized Smith conjecture
  • Hauptvermutung
  • Hirsch conjecture (disproved in 2010)
  • Intersection graph conjecture
  • Kouchnirenko's conjecture
  • Mertens conjecture
  • Pólya conjecture, 1919 (1958)
  • Ragsdale conjecture
  • Tait's conjecture
  • Von Neumann conjecture
  • Weyl–Berry conjecture
  • References

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