Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4595315 Journal of Number Theory 2007 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider an analogue of Artin's primitive root conjecture for algebraic numbers which are not units in quadratic fields. Given such an algebraic number α, for a rational prime p which is inert in the field, the maximal possible order of α modulo (p) is p2−1. An extension of Artin's conjecture is that there are infinitely many such inert primes for which this order is maximal. We show that for any choice of 113 algebraic numbers satisfying a certain simple restriction, at least one of the algebraic numbers has order at least for infinitely many inert primes p.

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