Griffin's dream for primitive roots in polynomial prime values

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Let ff be a polynomial representing infinitely many distinct primes, let gGg\in G, and let cg(f)c_g(f) denote the number of primes represented by ff for which gg is a primitive root, as defined in the paper. Griffin's dream conjecture. (1) For quadratic ff, Griffin's dream cannot be realized, that is, cg(f)<c_g(f)<\infty. (2) For every integer m1m\ge1 and every gGg\in G, there exists a polynomial ff such that cg(f)>mc_g(f)>m. The two assertions contrast an obstruction to having the primitive-root property for all prime values of a quadratic polynomial with the existence of arbitrarily long finite examples; the paper gives them as concluding conjectural claims, with no resolution supplied.

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Pieter Moree, “Primitive root producing quadratics”, arXiv:math/0406033 (2004).

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