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Problem 7. Travelling polytopes, Genevois Given a graph X, two vertices x, y \in V (X), and a finite set of vertices F \subset V (X), define Median Geometry and Applications 531…
Problem 7. Travelling polytopes, Genevois Given a graph X, two vertices x, y \in V (X), and a finite set of vertices F \subset V (X), define Median Geometry and Applications 531 Travelling salesman: TS(x, F, y) as the shortest length of a path connect- ing x to y and passing through all the vertices in F ; Travelling pol...
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Problem 7 introduces the travelling-salesman and travelling-polytope quantities and asks for their comparison; the report lists only partial bounds and no complete resolution.
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A natural question is: TP(X) := sup\{\alpha | \existsC > 0, \forallx, y, \forallF, TP(x, F, y) + |F | \geq C(TS(x, F, y) + |F |)\alpha \}.
A natural question is: TP(X) := sup\{\alpha | \existsC > 0, \forallx, y, \forallF, TP(x, F, y) + |F | \geq C(TS(x, F, y) + |F |)\alpha \}. Question. Which values can take TP(\cdot) on median graphs?
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Question. Which values can take TP(\cdot) on median graphs?
Question. Which values can take TP(\cdot) on median graphs? For instance, it would be interesting to compute the travelling polytope constant of a product of (regular) trees. Problem 8. Metric actions on median graphs, Genevois An action G y X on a graph is proper if vertex-stabilisers are finite and metrically proper i...
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The extracted record contains the unresolved values-of-TP question and the metric-action question for a wreath product; the source report gives no resolution.
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Problem 8. Metric actions on median graphs, Genevois An action G y X on a graph is proper if vertex-stabilisers are finite and metrically proper if \{g \in G | d(o, go) \leq…
Problem 8. Metric actions on median graphs, Genevois An action G y X on a graph is proper if vertex-stabilisers are finite and metrically proper if \{g \in G | d(o, go) \leq R\} is finite for every R \geq 0 (given an arbitrary basepoint o \in V (X)). An interesting problem is to understand the difference between acting pr...
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Problem 8 asks for the distinction between proper and metrically proper median-graph actions and gives an unresolved wreath-product case; no result settling it was found.
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Does it satisfy Kazhdan’s property (T)?
Does it satisfy Kazhdan’s property (T)? Question ii) Does the Grigorchuk group act metrically properly on a median graph? A construction of Schneeberger shows that a proper action does exist, but this specific action is not metrically proper. Problem 10. Covers of cube complexes, Shepherd The following question has been...
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This is the property-(T) part of Problem 9(i) for Brin's group 2V; the report poses it as open and no primary result resolving it was found.
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Question ii) Is there an algorithm that takes as input a pair of finite non- positively curved cube complexes and determines whether they have isomorphic universal covers?
Question ii) Is there an algorithm that takes as input a pair of finite non- positively curved cube complexes and determines whether they have isomorphic universal covers? Problem 9. Fixed-point properties, Genevois Inspired by Thompson’s group V as a group of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set C, Brin defined a higher-dim...
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Problem 10(ii) asks for an algorithm deciding isomorphism of universal covers of finite non-positively curved cube complexes; the report notes only the graph case and no general solution was found.
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Is G cocompactly cubulable?
Is G cocompactly cubulable? Is G necessarily residually finite? Can one remove the word “uniform” from this statement, i.e., instead just suppose that every point has a neighbourhood in which every triple has a unique median? Problem 10. Covers of cube complexes, Shepherd The following question has been posed a while ag...
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Is G cocompactly cubulable?
Is G cocompactly cubulable? Is G necessarily residually finite? Problem 12. Cartan-Hadamard theorem for median spaces, Bowditch One can show that any complete simply connected path-metric space which is uniformly locally median is in fact median. Here, “uniformly locally median” means that there is some ǫ > 0 such that ...
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Problem 11(2) asks whether a hyperbolic group acting properly and cocompactly on a median space is residually finite; the report presents this as open and no resolution was found.
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Can one remove the word “uniform” from this statement, i.e., instead just suppose that every point has a neighbourhood in which every triple has a unique median?
Can one remove the word “uniform” from this statement, i.e., instead just suppose that every point has a neighbourhood in which every triple has a unique median? (1) Suppose that for all infinite-order g \in G, there exists a cobounded (not necessarily proper) action of G on a CAT(0) cube complex Xg such that the hyperp...
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Bowditch's Cartan-Hadamard question asks whether pointwise local uniqueness of medians suffices without a uniform radius; the cited preprint and report leave it unresolved.
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Can we characterise groups quasi-isometric to an HHS within the class of coarse median groups in terms of their asymptotic cones?
Can we characterise groups quasi-isometric to an HHS within the class of coarse median groups in terms of their asymptotic cones? Problem 14. Graphical apiculate algebras, Chepoi \& Bandelt Every connected graph G = (V, E) can be turned into a ternary algebra, called an apex algebra of G: an apex operation (. . .) : V ...
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Problem 13(ii) proposes an asymptotic-cone characterization of coarse median groups quasi-isometric to HHSs; the report states it as a question and no resolution was found.
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Problem 14. Graphical apiculate algebras, Chepoi \& Bandelt Every connected graph G = (V, E) can be turned into a ternary algebra, called an apex algebra of G: an apex operation (.
Problem 14. Graphical apiculate algebras, Chepoi \& Bandelt Every connected graph G = (V, E) can be turned into a ternary algebra, called an apex algebra of G: an apex operation (. . .) : V 3 \to V maps any triplets u, v, w and Problem 13. Universal real cubings, Casals-Ruiz (from discussions with M. Hagen and I. Kazac...
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Median Geometry and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/8, pp. 487--540
The record is only the setup of Problem 14 on graphical apiculate algebras and contains no complete claim to verify; the associated characterization questions remain open.
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Problem 15. Corners in subcomplexes of Z3 , V.
Problem 15. Corners in subcomplexes of Z3 , V. Chepoi (from discussions with J. Chalopin and M. Kokkou) Let G be a finite connected (partial) subgraph of Z3 . Let X(G) be the cube complex of G, i.e., a square (respectively, a 3-cube) of Z3 belongs to X(G) if and only if all 4 vertices and 4 edges of this square belong t...
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Median Geometry and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/8, pp. 487--540
The corner-peeling assertion for simply connected subcomplexes of \mathbin{\mathbb{Z}^3} with simply connected pieces is stated as a conjecture; the cited 2026 work gives only an additional-condition theorem, not a proof of the conjecture.
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Does this remain true for a random quotient of a free product of at least 3 factors in the free product density model at density d > 1/3?
Does this remain true for a random quotient of a free product of at least 3 factors in the free product density model at density d > 1/3? The report passage is retained verbatim as the relevant context for this extracted problem.
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Median Geometry and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/8, pp. 487--540
The free-product-density Property (T) question for at least three factors is explicitly left open in the 2026 report and in the 2025 random-quotients paper; no resolution was found.
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conjecture. (2) Probabilistic methods.
conjecture. (2) Probabilistic methods. For example, Björn Bringmann presented recent re- sults on the the global well-posedness of singular stochastic PDEs of para- bolic type and explained how the methods connect to dispersive problems. In a different direction, Nikolay Tzvetkov’s lecture on probabilistic well- posedn...
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The record is only a truncated occurrence of the word `conjecture' in workshop prose and identifies no mathematical claim; it remains open under the queue rule.
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Below, we list some interesting open questions regarding the blowup phenome- non for the mass critical gKdV equation.
Below, we list some interesting open questions regarding the blowup phenome- non for the mass critical gKdV equation. (i) Does there exist a blowup residue r\alpha in H 1 for any solution of (1) blowing up in finite time at a finite point (thus, ν \in ( 13 , 21 ))? This question is open even for the solution constructed ...
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The mass-critical gKdV report explicitly says both the existence of the requested H^{1} blowup residue and stability of the constructed solutions are open, even for the known rate \nu=2/5.
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Note that Gr1 (C2 ) \sim = S2.
Note that Gr1 (C2 ) \sim = S2. • In [5] we prove global well-posedness for (HWM) posed on the real line R and all initial data in Ḣ 1/2 (R; S 2 ) along with the soliton resolution. • It is an interesting open question to understand the behavior of higher Sobolev norms H s with s > 1/2 for non-rational data. Is blowup ...
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For half-wave maps, the cited work proves global well-posedness at critical H^{1/2}, while the behavior of higher H^{s} norms for non-rational data is explicitly left open.
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This conjecture is logically related to, but not implied by, the cobordism hypoth- esis, as I will indicate.
This conjecture is logically related to, but not implied by, the cobordism hypoth- esis, as I will indicate. Generally, this conjecture is expected to be true based on heuristics of topological defects/operators in a quantum field theory on Rn . Orthogonal symmetries of higher categories David Ayala (joint work with Joh...
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The extracted record names an unidentified conjecture; the originating report describes the relevant orthogonal-group extension as conjectural and ongoing, with no proof reported.
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However, finding a precise technique for reformulating various standard examples of symmetries (continuous symmetries, spacetime symmetries) in terms of such data has largely…
However, finding a precise technique for reformulating various standard examples of symmetries (continuous symmetries, spacetime symmetries) in terms of such data has largely remained an open question. Symmetry Theories from the Universal Bulk Ilka Brunner (joint work with Severin König, Ingmar Saberi) Higher Structure...
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The report explicitly says that precise reformulations of standard continuous and spacetime symmetries remain largely open; later work on universal non-invertible symmetries likewise leaves the general higher-categorical definition unsettled.
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By direct calculation we also found an example in a 2d quantum lattice model, but here the connection with categories remains an open problem.
By direct calculation we also found an example in a 2d quantum lattice model, but here the connection with categories remains an open problem. Could a 2-category be involved? Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory 755
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Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/12, pp. 737--794
The report leaves the categorical interpretation of the directly computed two-dimensional lattice example open; recent sector-category constructions address particular models but do not supply the requested general 2-category connection.
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We conjecture that, when applied to the Virasoro conformal net, our construc- tion produces Liouville theory.
We conjecture that, when applied to the Virasoro conformal net, our construc- tion produces Liouville theory. Construction of fully extended 2d CFTs via conformal net methods André Henriques (joint work with James Tener)
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The Virasoro-net construction is still presented as conjecturally producing Liouville theory; recent work proves a net-to-unitary-VOA direction but not the claimed identification with Liouville theory.
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Open Questions • It is unknown to us, if our trisection invariants of 4-manifolds can be extended to a 4d TQFT.
Open Questions • It is unknown to us, if our trisection invariants of 4-manifolds can be extended to a 4d TQFT. The report passage is retained verbatim as the relevant context for this extracted problem.
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The originating authors state that extending their trisection invariant to a four-dimensional TQFT is unknown; subsequent trisection-invariant work does not establish such an extended TQFT.
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These anyons, if the braiding is non-trivial, can work as an index in the classification of mixed state topological order, where we ask if there is a finite-depth quantum…
These anyons, if the braiding is non-trivial, can work as an index in the classification of mixed state topological order, where we ask if there is a finite-depth quantum channel to map one state to the other[2]. Topological Order: The Operator-Algebraic Approach Yoshiko Ogata
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Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/12, pp. 737--794
Recent work gives a partial classification of mixed-state topological order under quasilocal quantum channels and proves obstruction results for nontrivial braiding, but a complete finite-depth-channel criterion remains conjectural.
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A natural question is whether there are anything else interesting in the quo- tient other than lattice translation in higher dimensions.
A natural question is whether there are anything else interesting in the quo- tient other than lattice translation in higher dimensions. [3] constructed the first example of a QCA in 3 spatial dimensions. Quantum Cellular Automata from TQFT Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (joint work with Meng Sun, Bowen Yang, Zongyuan Wang an...
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Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/12, pp. 737--794
Explicit higher-dimensional QCAs beyond lattice translation are now constructed, including dimension-periodic Clifford and non-Clifford families; a complete classification of all interesting quotient elements is not established.
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A remaining open question is to show that these QCAs cannot be realized as constant depth circuits.
A remaining open question is to show that these QCAs cannot be realized as constant depth circuits. More generally, it remains open whether there are QCAs corresponding to the Witt group of non-degenerated braided fusion categories [9], to which what was covered here is only the pointed part. The report passage is reta...
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Higher Structures from Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/12, pp. 737--794
The non-constant-depth nature of the constructed QCAs and the realization of the full Witt group remain unresolved in general; existing papers provide constructions and conditional or partial classification results only.
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What are geometric quantities, including Riemannian and sectional curvatures, in probability manifolds?
What are geometric quantities, including Riemannian and sectional curvatures, in probability manifolds? Can we use these computations to design algorithms in sampling distributions supported on simplex sets? Geometric calculations on probability manifolds from reciprocal relations in Master equations Wuchen Li
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Flows on Measure Spaces and Applications in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/13, pp. 795--884
Riemannian, sectional, Ricci, and scalar curvature calculations on several probability manifolds are available, but a general algorithmic theory for sampling on simplex-supported distributions is not established.
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For a distinguished site i∗ = ⌊\sigma0 N ⌋, with \sigma0 \in (0, 1), we ask whether the last token \thetaN (t) at time t decodes to the initial token at position i∗ .
For a distinguished site i∗ = ⌊\sigma0 N ⌋, with \sigma0 \in (0, 1), we ask whether the last token \thetaN (t) at time t decodes to the initial token at position i∗ . Large language models based on causal transformers are routinely deployed in regimes where the available context is much longer than the part of the prom...
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Flows on Measure Spaces and Applications in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/13, pp. 795--884
The causal-attention model now has rigorous mean-field and next-order correlation results and a U-shaped retrieval theorem under explicit assumptions, but this does not settle exact decoding for the full transformer setting or all parameters.
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Furthermore, the rigor- ous justification of the limit to the massive Arratia flow [6] in the scaling regime N \to \infty, \gamma \to \infty, ℓ \to 0 : \gammaℓ/ log N \to \infty…
Furthermore, the rigor- ous justification of the limit to the massive Arratia flow [6] in the scaling regime N \to \infty, \gamma \to \infty, ℓ \to 0 : \gammaℓ/ log N \to \infty is a challenging open question. (E2) Coalescence of clusters (tcoalesce \sim N ). After initial clustering, K \approx kmax (k) clusters have for...
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Flows on Measure Spaces and Applications in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/13, pp. 795--884
The originating work explicitly identifies rigorous convergence to the massive Arratia flow in the stated joint scaling regime as an open question; existing Arratia-flow papers study the limit model rather than this particle-system justification.
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We conjecture that the convergence result above is far from optimal, since, unlike when \pi is Gaussian, it depends on the parameter \lambda > 0.
We conjecture that the convergence result above is far from optimal, since, unlike when \pi is Gaussian, it depends on the parameter \lambda > 0. A better decay estimate remains open, as does a good (provably convergent) numerical scheme for non-Gaussian targets. and one still has a projected gradient structure on G. T...
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Flows on Measure Spaces and Applications in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/13, pp. 795--884
The report leaves both a sharper non-Gaussian decay estimate and a good provably convergent numerical scheme open; available algorithms for related Wasserstein problems do not prove these claims for the stated model.
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To sidestep this problem, we propose to consider a more regular subset of measures or tangent vectors.
To sidestep this problem, we propose to consider a more regular subset of measures or tangent vectors. The theoretical proof of convergence, however, remains an open question. Accelerated Fixed-point Iteration over Spaces of Probability Measures Vitalii Aksenov (joint work with M. Eigel and M. Oster)
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Flows on Measure Spaces and Applications in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/13, pp. 795--884
Convergence theory has been proved for the Gaussian Bures--Wasserstein specialization, while the proposed regular-subset method and convergence theory on general probability-measure spaces remain open.
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The talk focused on recent results and stating open questions related to the finite generation of the co- homology of finite group schemes over Verlinde categories.
The talk focused on recent results and stating open questions related to the finite generation of the co- homology of finite group schemes over Verlinde categories. Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 543
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The record is a programmatic description of recent results and open questions, not a resolved finite-generation theorem for finite group schemes over Verlinde categories; the general problem remains active.
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Conjecture 1.2 (Etingof-Ostrik’04).
Conjecture 1.2 (Etingof-Ostrik’04). Let C be a finite tensor category. (1) H ∗ (C) = Ext∗C (1, 1) is Noetherian; (2) For any M, N \in C, Ext∗C (M, N ) is a finite module over Ext∗C (1, 1). When conjecture holds, we say that C satisfies CFG (Cohomological Finite Generation). This is an essential property to be able to stud...
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The Etingof--Ostrik CFG conjecture remains open for arbitrary finite tensor categories, although it is proved in important classes including braided categories and several Hopf-algebraic cases.
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Conjecture 1.3 (Nakano-Vashaw-Yakimov, 2021).
Conjecture 1.3 (Nakano-Vashaw-Yakimov, 2021). Let C be a finite tensor cate- gory. Then the Balmer spectrum of the stable category of C can be identified with a certain subring Zc (H ∗ (C)) of H ∗ (C), called the “categorical center”. When conjecture holds, we say that C satisfies CFG (Cohomological Finite Generation). Th...
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
Comparison maps to the categorical center and partial support/spectrum results are established under finite-generation hypotheses and in several classes, but the stated identification for every finite tensor category remains conjectural.
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In the study of modular representations of Lie algebras arising from algebraic groups, a fundamental problem is determining when such representations lift to the ambient…
In the study of modular representations of Lie algebras arising from algebraic groups, a fundamental problem is determining when such representations lift to the ambient algebraic group. Cohomology for Algebraic Groups and Donkin’s Conjectures Daniel K. Nakano (joint work with Christopher P. Bendel, Cornelius Pillen, P...
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The extracted statement is a broad lifting problem rather than a theorem; Donkin-related lifting conjectures have substantial case-by-case progress and counterexamples to nearby formulations, but no general resolution.
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Is this 0 for n > 0, as it is for Hncts ?
Is this 0 for n > 0, as it is for Hncts ? Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 551
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The question concerns abstract cohomology of pro-p groups with coefficients of characteristic different from p; the report records it as unresolved, and the cited discrete-cohomology work does not settle the general vanishing claim.
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Conjecture 9. Let G be a finite p-group.
Conjecture 9. Let G be a finite p-group. Then H•• (G) is Noetherian. Independent of Noetherianity, we obtain that the above theorem holds at the trivial subgroup of G. As a result, we obtain a nice alternative characterization of the usual cohomology ring of a p-group. In particular, Spc(K(G)) is a Dirac scheme. (2) The...
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Noetherianity of the twisted cohomology ring for every finite p-group is still posed as a conjecture; current work extends the construction and proves control results but not the required Noetherianity.
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Conjecture 7. Let G be a (pro-)finite group, H \leq G a (pro-)p-subgroup.
Conjecture 7. Let G be a (pro-)finite group, H \leq G a (pro-)p-subgroup. Then P(H, p) is periodic iff p is. In other words, the periodic locus of Spec(DPerm(G; k)\omega ) is precisely the com- plement of the closed points. Remark 8 (Twisted group cohomology). The natural proof strategy would follow the one of Example 2 ...
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The periodic-locus conjecture is proved when the ambient group is a pro-p group and in important elementary-abelian cases, but the general profinite-group statement remains open because the needed ampleness is not known.
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So a natural question is the following: Question 8.
So a natural question is the following: Question 8. How much of the E\infty ring structure is determined by the Frobenius lifts ϕp : \pi0 (A) \to \pi0 (A)∧ p? \pi0 map(X ⊗n , X)hΣn , which satisfy composition relations only up to homotopy. The following observation goes back to Nikolaus-Scholze [2], and is an important...
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For flat spectra, the report proves that H-infinity structures are determined by the commutative ring on pi-zero and the Frobenius lifts, but it explicitly leaves extension and uniqueness of E-infinity structures unresolved.
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The rank conjecture is still open in its full generality.
The rank conjecture is still open in its full generality. For free actions of G = (Z/p)r on X ≃ (S n )k , the conjecture is completely settled except for the cases p = 2 and n = 3, 7. Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 567
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The rank bound is established in broad cases, including all odd primes in the cited equidimensional setting, while the full generality and the remaining p-equals-two cases n-equals-three and seven are still open.
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What do they look like?
What do they look like? How many of them are there? What are the minimal synthetic buildings? Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 583
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Synthetic buildings now have a general definition, many constructions, and partial classification results, but the questions of their full form and number remain open; current work still states classification conjectures.
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Conjecture 5. For each finite group and prime p, the p-subgroups complex ∆(Sp (G)) always has the equivariant homotopy type of a minimal synthetic build- ing.
Conjecture 5. For each finite group and prime p, the p-subgroups complex ∆(Sp (G)) always has the equivariant homotopy type of a minimal synthetic build- ing. Conjecture 6. Minimal synthetic buildings are all equivariantly homotopy equiv- alent to homomorphic images of ∆(Sp (G)). Conjecture 7. For groups of Lie type in ...
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The rank-at-most-two case of Conjecture 7 is proved, while Conjectures 5 and 6 and the general Lie-rank classification remain unresolved.
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Can we say whether X G , the fixed point set, is non-empty?
Can we say whether X G , the fixed point set, is non-empty? Group actions on compact contractible complexes Kevin Ivan Piterman (joint work with Ivan Sadofschi Costa)
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The unrestricted fixed-point question has negative examples, including finite fixed-point-free actions on compact contractible complexes, while the compact contractible 2-complex case is settled positively and broader cases remain open.
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How much of the homological information about X Z/p can be re- covered from that of X?
How much of the homological information about X Z/p can be re- covered from that of X? The report passage is retained verbatim as the relevant context for this extracted problem.
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Smith localization and the unstable-module description recover substantial fixed-point cohomology from Borel data, and recent structured work recovers the p-adic homotopy type in the finite CW setting, but no complete homological reconstruction is known.
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Question 2.2. If G is a compact Lie group of dimension d > 0 with \pi0 (G) not p-nilpotent, does it follow that the map \pi∗ (Γk C∗ (ΩBGp )) −\to \pi∗ (C∗ (ΩBGp )) is zero?
Question 2.2. If G is a compact Lie group of dimension d > 0 with \pi0 (G) not p-nilpotent, does it follow that the map \pi∗ (Γk C∗ (ΩBGp )) −\to \pi∗ (C∗ (ΩBGp )) is zero? 2.4. The singularity category as a bounded derived category. The main result is that the singularity category is the bounded derived category of th...
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The stated compact-Lie-group vanishing question is posed as an open problem; the finite-group analogue is known, but no proof or counterexample for the stated general case was found.
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A fundamental question in the theory of transformation groups is: Which finite groups can act freely on a given product of spheres?
A fundamental question in the theory of transformation groups is: Which finite groups can act freely on a given product of spheres? Free symmetries of products of spheres and Steenrod closed parameter ideals Marc Stephan (joint work with Henrik Rüping, Ergün Yalçın)
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The rank-one case and substantial rank-two families are solved, but the Benson--Carlson characterization still reduces to unresolved free actions for Qd(p) at odd primes.
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We conjecture that Theorem 5 extends to every prime p.
We conjecture that Theorem 5 extends to every prime p. The report passage is retained verbatim as the relevant context for this extracted problem.
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The classification of Steenrod-closed parameter ideals is proved for p=3, but the report explicitly leaves its extension to every prime as a conjecture and no later proof was located.
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More generally, we ask: Question 2.2.
More generally, we ask: Question 2.2. 2. The quadratic bias invariant and Tate cohomology The quadratic bias invariant \betaQ : M 4 (G) \to BQ (G) is defined for a thickening M (X) by an invariant in the isometry group of the hyperbolic Tate form ebG : (( b L)∗ ⊕ b L) \times (( b L)∗ ⊕ b L) \to Z/|G| associated to the e...
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Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/9, pp. 541--610
The question whether homotopy-equivalent 2-complexes have diffeomorphic doubles remains unresolved; the quadratic bias invariant gives new obstructions and examples but not a general diffeomorphism theorem.
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In this case we have X ≃ Y , M (X) = S 4 , M (Y ) ≃ S 4 and so 2.2 is equivalent to the question of whether M (Y ) is an exotic 4-sphere.
In this case we have X ≃ Y , M (X) = S 4 , M (Y ) ≃ S 4 and so 2.2 is equivalent to the question of whether M (Y ) is an exotic 4-sphere. Cohomology of Finite Groups: Interactions and Applications 605
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The special case is equivalent to the existence question for an exotic 4-sphere, which remains unresolved; the cited doubling work supplies context but no resolution.
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What notions of complexity govern learning and generalization in highly overparameterized and moderately overparametrized models?
What notions of complexity govern learning and generalization in highly overparameterized and moderately overparametrized models? Why do gradient- based optimization methods consistently identify solutions that generalize well? How do useful representations emerge during training? What are the computa- tional limitatio...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
The listed questions about complexity, implicit optimization bias, representation emergence, and computational limits are broad research problems with substantial partial results but no unified resolution.
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Whether such a synthesis ultimately takes the form of a unified mathematical theory remains an open question.
Whether such a synthesis ultimately takes the form of a unified mathematical theory remains an open question. Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning 689 Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning 691
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
The possibility of a unified mathematical theory synthesizing the listed modern learning phenomena is explicitly left open in the workshop report, with no subsequent resolution located.
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Can one characterize, beyond the stylized settings studied so far, which curricula encourage algorithmic reasoning in Transformers?
Can one characterize, beyond the stylized settings studied so far, which curricula encourage algorithmic reasoning in Transformers? How should one identify potentially disruptive but clean examples for SSMs or hy- brid architectures? Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning 695
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Existing Transformer and state-space-model studies cover stylized curricula and architectures, but no general characterization of curricula or disruptive hybrid examples answering the stated questions is known.
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Three ques- tions drove the talk: (1) What do Wt and Ht converge to?
Three ques- tions drove the talk: (1) What do Wt and Ht converge to? (2) What does the trajectory look like – is convergence monotone in some metric? (3) How does the answer depend on initialization and on the number of classes k? Cross-entropy (CE) is the workhorse loss for training deep-net classifiers, yet our theore...
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For the canonical balanced two-layer linear model, recent work proves global convergence of cross-entropy gradient flow to neural-collapse geometry and gives a tractable trajectory under Hadamard initialization, while dependence on general initialization and class count remains unresolved.
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A key question is which probability distributions cannot be represented by LLMs due to this bottleneck, and how significant are they to performance?
A key question is which probability distributions cannot be represented by LLMs due to this bottleneck, and how significant are they to performance? How do the answers to these questions vary with m? The Softmax Bottleneck Does Not Limit the Probabilities of the Most Likely Tokens Ronen Basri Modern and Emerging Phenome...
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The ICLR 2026 analysis gives bounds and experiments for top-m representability and shows that many likely-token distributions are attainable, but it does not characterize all excluded distributions or settle their performance significance.
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We conjecture, and support with empirical evidence, that at inference time, the probabilities of tokens beyond the top 1,000 will not significantly affect performance when…
We conjecture, and support with empirical evidence, that at inference time, the probabilities of tokens beyond the top 1,000 will not significantly affect performance when nucleus sampling is used. What is the largest m for which there exists an OPM such that, for any collection of m tokens, there exists an embedding tha...
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The ICLR 2026 paper derives sign-rank bounds and empirical values for the largest top-m regime, but leaves the exact extremal m in the stated OPM problem undetermined.
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How can the behavior of AI systems be more closely aligned with that of human users?
How can the behavior of AI systems be more closely aligned with that of human users? Deep neural networks have achieved success across a wide range of applications, including as models of human behavior in vision tasks. However, neural network training and human learning differ in fundamental ways, and neural networks o...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
Human-aligned visual representations have been constructed and shown to improve human-behavioral similarity, uncertainty, and robustness, but general alignment of AI behavior with human users remains unresolved.
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What is missing for modern learning systems to exhibit more human-like behavior?
What is missing for modern learning systems to exhibit more human-like behavior? How can the behavior of AI systems be more closely aligned with that of human users? Klaus-Robert Müller Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning 713
Collected from Oberwolfach Reports, which document mathematical workshops and their open-problem discussions. **Source report:** [Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736](https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2026/11) ## Literature review (checked 202...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
A demonstrated missing ingredient is multilevel human conceptual structure, and transferring human judgments improves several measures, but this is one task-specific intervention rather than a complete account of human-like learning.
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The talk discussed results and open problems around three structural questions about ReLU neural networks: which functions they can represent exactly, how difficult it is to…
The talk discussed results and open problems around three structural questions about ReLU neural networks: which functions they can represent exactly, how difficult it is to verify properties of a trained network, and to what extent the parameters of a network are identifiable from the function it computes. However, the e...
Collected from Oberwolfach Reports, which document mathematical workshops and their open-problem discussions. **Source report:** [Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736](https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2026/11) ## Literature review (checked 202...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
New constructions represent maximum functions through max10 with two hidden layers and improve general upper bounds, but whether any unrestricted CPWL function requires more than two hidden layers remains open.
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An important open question is whether the phenomena observed in contemporary foundation models require fundamentally new principles or can be understood through extensions of…
An important open question is whether the phenomena observed in contemporary foundation models require fundamentally new principles or can be understood through extensions of existing theories of approximation, optimization, and statistical learning. Direction 4: Understanding the Computational Limits of Learning. Clas...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
Whether foundation-model phenomena require new principles or extensions of existing approximation, optimization, and learning theories is explicitly posed as an open direction with no settled answer.
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The workshop demonstrated both the remarkable progress that has been achieved in understanding modern learning systems and the sub- stantial challenges that remain open.
The workshop demonstrated both the remarkable progress that has been achieved in understanding modern learning systems and the sub- stantial challenges that remain open. Whether machine learning will ultimately admit such a unified mathematical description remains an open question. Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machi...
Collected from Oberwolfach Reports, which document mathematical workshops and their open-problem discussions. **Source report:** [Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736](https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2026/11) ## Literature review (checked 202...
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Modern and Emerging Phenomena in Machine Learning (2026), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2026/11, pp. 683--736
The report explicitly identifies the existence of a unified mathematical description of machine learning as open, and current literature does not establish one.
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