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Each problem states how progress is verified and what counts as a contribution. Besides the problems curated here, the catalogue includes open conjectures from Formal Conjectures (with Lean statements), optimization constants and the AlphaEvolve problems. Know one that belongs here? Propose a problem.

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B Hard Physics

Ground-state phase diagram of the doped 2D Hubbard model

Determine reliably, with controlled numerics, where the doped two-dimensional Hubbard model (with and without next-nearest-neighbour hopping t′) is superconducting, striped or otherwise ordered.

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B Hard Physics

Hadronic vacuum polarisation in the muon g−2

Resolve the disagreement between lattice-QCD and data-driven (e+e− → hadrons) evaluations of the leading hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment.

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C Hard Physics

Theory of the glass transition

Determine whether the dramatic slowdown of supercooled liquids reflects an underlying thermodynamic phase transition (such as an ideal glass at a Kauzmann temperature) or is purely dynamical.

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