Bounded gaps between primes with a given primitive root
Number Theory
2016-01-20 v3
Abstract
Fix an integer that is not a perfect square. In 1927, Artin conjectured that there are infinitely many primes for which is a primitive root. Forty years later, Hooley showed that Artin's conjecture follows from the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH). We inject Hooley's analysis into the Maynard--Tao work on bounded gaps between primes. This leads to the following GRH-conditional result: Fix an integer . If is the sequence of primes possessing as a primitive root, then , where is a finite constant that depends on but not on . We also show that the primes in this result may be taken to be consecutive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.4007,
title = {Bounded gaps between primes with a given primitive root},
author = {Paul Pollack},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4007},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
small corrections to the treatment of \sum_1 on pp. 11--12