The least prime primitive root and the shifted sieve
Let be the Mahler measure of an algebraic number , and be an open subset of . Then its Lehmer constant is inf , the infimum being over all non-zero non-cyclotomic lying with its conjugates outside . We evaluate when is any annulus centered at . We do the same for a variant of , which we call the transfinite Lehmer constant .Also, we prove the converse to Langevin’s Theorem, which states that if contains a point of modulus . We prove the corresponding result for .
The so-called Lifted Root Number Conjecture is a strengthening of Chinburg’s - conjecture for Galois extensions of number fields. It is certainly more difficult than the -localization. Following the lead of Ritter and Weiss, we prove the Lifted Root Number Conjecture for the case that and the degree of is an odd prime, with another small restriction on ramification. The very explicit calculations with cyclotomic units use trees and some classical combinatorics for bookkeeping. An important...
We study the Ljunggren equation Y² + 1 = 2X⁴ using the "multiplication by 2" method of Chabauty.