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Problems known to be open in the literature and any problem that, after being posed, is decided to be open by the community.

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Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science?

Algebraic dichotomy conjecture (Bulatov, Jeavons and Krokhin): Assuming ETH, every constraint satisfaction problem is either in $P$ or requires $2^{ \Omega(n)}$ time.
15 votes

Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science?

Proving the existence of hard-on-average problems in NP using the P≠NP assumption. Bogdanov and Trevisan, Average-Case Complexity, Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 2, No 1 …
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How hard is unshuffling a string?

Romeo Rizzi and Stéphane Vialette prove that recognizing square strings is NP-complete in their 2013 paper "On Recognizing Words That Are Squares for the Shuffle Product", by reduction from the longes …
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"Refined" list of open problems in TCS

There is a list of open problems in computational geometry. It is edited and maintained by Demaine, Mitchell, and O'Rourke.
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Problems between NC and P: How many have been resolved from this list?

The parallel complexity of the graph closure problem (problem $B.1.4$, posed by Khuller) was resolved By Angelo Monti. He showed that the graph closure problem is P-complete. Angelo Monti, On the com …
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Positive topological ordering, take 3

This paper, Obtaining a triangular matrix by independent row-column permutations Fertin, Rusu, and Vialette, shows that the problem is NP-complete for binary square matrices.
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