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Can every even integer greater than two really always be written as the sum of two primes?

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Do all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function really lie on the critical line?

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Do infinitely many twin prime pairs really exist, or does the last one eventually appear?

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Do smooth, globally defined solutions to the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations always exist, or can a solution break down in finite time?

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Does a nontrivial quantum Yang-Mills theory really exist for every compact simple gauge group in four dimensions, with a strictly positive mass gap?

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Does every finite union-closed family of sets, other than the family holding only the empty set, really contain an element belonging to at least half of the sets in the family?

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Does every runner on a circular track, moving at its own constant and distinct speed, really become lonely at some moment, for every number of runners n?

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Does the Collatz process really always reach one, from every possible starting number?

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Does the Erdos-Straus equation 4/n = 1/x + 1/y + 1/z really have a positive-integer solution for every integer n of 2 or more?

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Does the rank of an elliptic curve's group of rational points really equal the order of vanishing of its L-function at s equals one, for every elliptic curve?

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Is every efficiently checkable problem also efficiently solvable, or is checking genuinely easier than solving?

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Is every Hodge class on a smooth complex projective algebraic variety really a rational combination of the cohomology classes of actual algebraic subvarieties?

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Is the abc conjecture actually true, and does Shinichi Mochizuki's inter-universal Teichmuller theory really prove it?

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Is there really a size of infinity strictly between the integers and the real numbers, and if not, does that fact hold absolutely or only relative to which further axioms mathematicians choose to accept?

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Is there really always at least one prime number between n squared and (n plus one) squared, for every positive integer n?

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Whenever A to the x plus B to the y equals C to the z, with x, y and z all greater than two, do A, B and C really always share a common prime factor?

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