Abstract
Artin's primitive root conjecture for function fields was proved by Bilharz in his thesis in 1937, conditionally on the proof of the Riemann hypothesis for function fields over finite fields, which was proved later by Weil in 1948. In this paper, we provide a simple proof of Artin's primitive root conjecture for function fields which does not use the Riemann hypothesis for function fields but rather modifies the classical argument of Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin in their 1896 proof of the prime number theorem.
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