Bouniakowsky's conjecture on prime values of irreducible polynomials
Bouniakowsky's conjecture on prime values of irreducible polynomials
Let be a polynomial with integer coefficients. Assume that its leading coefficient is positive, that is irreducible over the integers, and that
Bouniakowsky's conjecture. Then is prime for infinitely many positive integer values of . This is the motivating conjecture for studying eventually prime-free sequences, since reducible or fixed-divisor obstructions can prevent a polynomial sequence from taking prime values infinitely often.
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Primary source
Dan Ismailescu and Yunkyu James Lee, “Polynomially growing integer sequences all whose terms are composite”, arXiv:2501.04851 (2025).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1809.05569, arXiv:1807.02195, arXiv:1310.5198, arXiv:math/9808021.
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