English

The average of the smallest prime in a conjugacy class

Number Theory 2016-01-13 v1

Abstract

Let CC be a conjugacy class of SnS_n and KK an SnS_n-field. Let nK,Cn_{K,C} be the smallest prime which is ramified or whose Frobenius automorphism Frobp_p does not belong to CC. Under some technical conjectures, we compute the average of nK,Cn_{K,C}. For S3S_3 and S4S_4-fields, our result is unconditional. For SnS_n-fields, n=3,4,5n=3,4,5, we give a different proof which depends on the strong Artin conjecture. Let NK,CN_{K,C} be the smallest prime for which Frobp_p belongs to CC. For S3S_3-fields, we obtain an unconditional result for the average of NK,CN_{K,C} for C=[(12)]C=[(12)].

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@article{arxiv.1601.03012,
  title  = {The average of the smallest prime in a conjugacy class},
  author = {Peter J. Cho and Henry H. Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03012},
  year   = {2016}
}