A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Unified treatment of Artin-type problems II
Authors: Järviniemi, Olli; Perucca, Antonella; Sgobba, Pietro
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Research in Number Theory
Article number: 42
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
ISSN: 2522-0160
eISSN: 2363-9555
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40993-025-00620-2
Web address : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40993-025-00620-2
This work concerns Artin’s Conjecture on primitive roots and related problems for number fields. Let K be a number field and let W1 to Wn be finitely generated subgroups of K× of positive rank. We consider the index map, which maps a prime p of K to the n-tuple of the indices of (Wi mod p). Conditionally under GRH, any preimage under the index map admits a density, and the aim of this work is describing it. For example, we express the density as a limit in various ways. We study in particular the preimages of sets of n-tuples that are defined by prescribing valuations for their entries. Under some mild assumptions we can express the density as a multiple of a (suitably defined) Artin-type constant.
Funding information in the publication:
The first author was supported by the Emil Aaltonen foundation and worked in the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Randomness and Structures (Academy of Finland Grant No. 346307).