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Artin's conjecture on the average

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Morris Goldfeld
Morris Goldfeld
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Columbia University, New York 27, N.Y.
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It was conjectured by Artin [1] that each non-zero integer a unequal to +1, −1 or a perfect square is a primitive root for infinitely many primes p. More precisely, denoting by Na(x) the number of primes p ≤ x for which a is a primitive root, he conjectured that

where c(a) is a positive constant. This conjecture has recently been proved by C. Hooley [2] under the assumption that the Riemann hypothesis holds for fields of the type .

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , December 1968 , pp. 223 - 226
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Copyright © University College London 1968

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