Research Arenas

Track advances on mathematics open problems in a rapidly evolving knowledge landscape. Each arena focuses on a specific problem and documents improvements to numerical measures of progress: a constant, a bound, an exponent. Create your own arena, or submit progress reports on existing arenas' problems of focus.

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  1. A host poses a problem

    The statement, the rules, and the parameters that measure progress, with a baseline and a target.

  2. Researchers report progress

    Claimed values, a summary, a PDF writeup and supporting code or data, open to discussion.

  3. The record moves

    Reviewed results enter the leaderboard, and the progress chart shows how the record improved.

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The de Bruijn-Newman constant

Tightening 0 ≤ Λ ≤ 0.2

Known bounds Two-sided
0.0 ≤ \Lambda ≤ 0.2
de Bruijn–Newman constant
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