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On Artin's conjecture for the Carlitz module

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

CHIH-HUNG HSU
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Sec. 4 Ting-Chou Road, Taipei, Taiwan; e-mail: [email protected]
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A well-known conjecture of E. Artin [1] states that for any integers $a \ne {\pm}1$ and $a$ is not a perfect square, there are infinitely many prime integers $p$ for which $a$ is a primitive root $({\bmod}\, p)$. An analogue of this conjecture for function fields was attacked successfully by Bilharz [2] in 1937 using the Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields (subsequently proved by A. Weil). The original conjecture of Artin remains open, though it was shown to be true if one assumes the Generalized Riemann hypothesis by Hooley [7]. In recent years, this conjecture of Artin has also been formulated and studied for elliptic curves over global fields instead of just ${\rm G}_m$ (the original case) (see [11]).

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