Some of Paul Erdős' conjectures
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A square cannot be dissected into squares of different sizes.
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Let f(n) be the maximum of the sum
a1+...+an
where a1,...,an are the
side lengths of n squares inscribed into a unit square with no
common interior point.
Show that
f(n2)=f(n2+1).
- If a point is given in a triangle and its distences from the
sides are x,y,z, from the nodes are a,b,c then
a+b+c ≥ 2(x+y+z)
holds. (Erdős-Mordell inequality)
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There are no three consecutive powerful numbers.
(Erdős-Mollin-Walsh, a natural number is powerful if no prime divides it
on the first power)
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If, in an infinite graph, a and b are two vertices which are not
joined, then there are a family P of disjoint paths connecting a
and b, and a set S of vertices separating a and b
such that
every path in P contains exactly one element of S and every
vertex in S is on a path in P. (Generalized Menger-theorem)
- If the sum of reciprocals of a sequence of natural numbers diverges then
that sequences contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions.
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There is a covering system all whose moduli are larger than a predetermined
number.
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There are infinitely many natural numbers n such that
d(n)=d(n+1) holds.
(d(n) is the number of positive divisors of n.)
(Erdős-Mirsky conjecture)
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There are infinitely many natural numbers n such that
σ(n)=σ(n+1)
holds (σ(n) is the sum of the positive divisors of n).
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Every positive rational number of the form 4/b is the sum
of at most 3
unit fractions.
(Erdős-Straus)
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There is a sequence of natural numbers with distinct pairwise sums
(a Sidon sequence) which has more than
x1/2-ε
elements below x (for every ε>0).
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There is a constant c such that for every ε>0,
for n large enough the diagonal Ramsey number satisfies
(c-ε)n < R(n,n) < (c+ε)n.
- If, in a graph of nk vertices every vertex has degree less than
k, then there is a coloring with k colors such that every color
class has exactly n vertices. (Hajnal-Szemerédi theorem)
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Given n points on the plane, the number of unit distances between them
is O(n1+o(1)).
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If a graph is the union of n complete graphs of size n with any
two intersecting in at most one vertex, then the graph is
n-chromatic. (Erdős-Faber-Lovász-conjecture)
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If, in a finite graph, every vertex has degree at least 3, then
there is a circuit with length a power of 2.
(Erdős-Gyárfás)
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For every natural number k there is a constant c such that for
every n among cn n-element sets there are
k which form a delta-system. (Erdős-Rado)
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If A=a0, a1,... is a sequence converging to
0, then there is a set of reals, with positive measure, that does not contain
a subset similar to A.
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Every uncountably chromatic graphs has an uncountably chromatic
triangle-free subgraph.
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For any two uncountably chromatic graphs there is a common 4-chromatic
subgraph.
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Every uncountably chromatic graph contains an infinitely connected subgraph.