Bunyakovsky's conjecture on prime values of polynomials

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Let

f(x)=∑j=0dajxj∈Z[x]f(x)=\sum_{j=0}^{d}a_jx^j\in\mathbb{Z}[x]

be an irreducible polynomial with positive leading coefficient and satisfying gcd(a1,…,ad)=1\mathrm{gcd}(a_1,\ldots,a_d)=1.

Bunyakovsky's conjecture. The value f(n)f(n) should be prime for infinitely many positive integers nn.

This is a classical conjecture on prime values of irreducible polynomials and would, for example, imply the existence of infinitely many repunit primes with a fixed number of digits in the applications discussed in the paper. It remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Jorge Jiménez Urroz and Alexander Moretó, “The number of Sylow subgroups and a generalization of Mersenne primes”, arXiv:2606.24688 (2026).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2410.00177, arXiv:2405.03552, arXiv:2311.15922, arXiv:2308.10216, arXiv:1805.08851, arXiv:1507.05080.

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