Matthews' generalized primitive-root conjecture

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Let a1,a2,…,ana_1,a_2,\dots,a_n be nonzero integers other than ±1\pm1, and let A(a1,…,an)A(a_1,\dots,a_n) denote the associated constant. For x∈Nx\in\mathbb{N}, the number of primes not exceeding xx is asymptotically

xlog⁡xA(a1,…,an)+O(xlog⁡2x(log⁡log⁡x)2n−1).\frac{x}{\log x}A(a_1,\dots,a_n)+O\left(\frac{x}{\log^2 x}(\log\log x)^{2^n-1}\right).

Matthews' generalized conjecture. The displayed asymptotic holds for the number of primes ≤x\le x. The source introduces this as a generalized version of Artin's conjecture and uses it in the study of normal numbers; no resolution status is supplied in the paper excerpt.

References

Primary source

Satyadev Nandakumar and Santhosh Kumar Vangapelli, “Normality and Finite-state Dimension of Liouville numbers”, arXiv:1204.4104 (2014).

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