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Contents
  1. Bateman-Horn conjecture
  2. Definitions and mathematical statement
  3. Short English statement
  4. Research attempt
  5. Current frontier.
  6. Attack route.
  7. Attempt: a prime-only weighted equivalent.
  8. Attempt: exact local models at a fixed cutoff.
  9. Adversarial calibration: the wrong constant at the prime cutoff.
  10. Attempt: the bridge that would actually be needed.
  11. Stress test and computation.
  12. Outcome.
  13. Sources

Bateman-Horn conjecture

Definitions and mathematical statement

For fixed distinct nonconstant irreducible $f_1,\ldots,f_r\in{\mathbb{Z}}[x]$ of positive leading coefficient, let $d_i=\deg f_i$ and let $N_p$ count roots of $\prod_i f_i$ modulo $p$. Admissibility means $N_p<p$ for every prime. The Bateman--Horn prediction is \[ \#\{1\le n\le x:f_i(n)\text{ all prime}\} \sim\frac{C(f)}{\prod_i d_i}\frac{x}{(\log x)^r},\qquad C(f)=\prod_p\frac{1-N_p/p}{(1-1/p)^r}. \] Equivalently use $C(f)\int^x dt/\prod_i\log f_i(t)$, starting where all values exceed one. The polynomials are fixed before $x$ tends to infinity.

Formulation and concept references: [S1].

Short English statement

Do simultaneous prime values of fixed admissible polynomials follow the exact density predicted by Bateman and Horn?

Research attempt

Current frontier.
The original survey develops the singular series, admissibility and fixed polynomial convention [E1]. Coefficient-averaged prime-value results do not remove exceptional fixed tuples. Likewise the 2026 work on sets of integers satisfying Bateman--Horn statistics constructs sets with prescribed statistics; it does not identify those sets with the actual primes [S3]. The unverified full-proof claim in [S2] is not used. The attempt below tests whether exact finite congruence calculations can be pushed to the prime-factor cutoff needed for an asymptotic, and calibrates the obstruction on the solved linear case.
Attack route.
The local factors suggest a product of residue-class densities. Chinese remaindering proves such a product at any fixed cutoff, but does not justify letting the cutoff grow at the same rate as the input. A weighted-prime formulation isolates the exact analytic conclusion needed. The route combines these two descriptions and then checks the interchange of limits against $f(n)=n$, where the true answer is known independently.
Attempt: a prime-only weighted equivalent.
Choose $n_0$ so that every $f_i(t)>1$ and is increasing for $t\geq n_0$. Write \[ \vartheta_*(m)=\begin{cases}\log m,&m\text{ is prime},\\0,&\text{otherwise},\end{cases} \qquad g(t)=\prod_{i=1}^r\log f_i(t), \] \[ W(x)=\sum_{n_0\leq n\leq x}\prod_i\vartheta_*(f_i(n)), \qquad P(x)=\#\{n_0\leq n\leq x:f_i(n)\text{ all prime}\}. \] If \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-65-71-38-33-3a-77-65-69-67-68-74-65-64} W(x)=C(f)x+o(x), \end{equation} then the target asymptotic follows. Abel summation gives, up to fixed initial terms, \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-65-71-38-33-3a-61-62-65-6c} P(x)=\frac{W(x)}{g(x)}+ \int_{n_0}^x W(t)\frac{g'(t)}{g(t)^2}\,dt. \end{equation} Here $g(t)\sim(\prod_i d_i)(\log t)^r$ and $g'(t)/g(t)=O(1/(t\log t))$. The main term on the right is $C(f)\int_{n_0}^xdt/g(t)$ plus a fixed constant, since $(t/g(t))'=1/g(t)-t g'(t)/g(t)^2$. If $W(t)=C(f)t+E(t)$ with $E(t)=o(t)$, its first error is $o(x/g(x))$. For the integral error split at a fixed large $T_0$ on which $|E(t)|\leq\varepsilon t$; the tail is at most $\varepsilon\int_{T_0}^x t g'(t)/g(t)^2dt=O(\varepsilon x/g(x))$. Sending $\varepsilon\to0$ proves the desired error. Thus the degree factor is exactly $\prod_i d_i$, not an omitted normalization.

Conversely the stated asymptotic for $P(x)$ implies (eq83:weighted) by summation against $g(n)$: its leading endpoint term is $C(f)x+o(x)$ and the derivative term is $O(x/\log x)+o(x)$. This is an equivalent analytic target, not an established estimate. Using $\vartheta_*$ rather than $\Lambda$ avoids an unproved assertion that proper prime powers among arbitrary high-degree polynomial values are negligible. The trivial count of all prime powers up to $O(x^d)$ is not automatically $o(x)$ when $d$ is large.

Attempt: exact local models at a fixed cutoff.
Let $P_z=\prod_{p\leq z}p$ and $A_z=\prod_{p\leq z}(1-1/p)^{-r}$. Define \[ R_z(n)=A_z\,\mathbf1_{\gcd(P_z,\prod_i f_i(n))=1}. \] By the Chinese remainder theorem its exact mean over one full period is \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-65-71-38-33-3a-6c-6f-63-61-6c} \frac1{P_z}\sum_{n=1}^{P_z}R_z(n) =A_z\prod_{p\leq z}(1-N_p/p)=:C_z(f). \end{equation} Counting full periods and a remainder yields \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-65-71-38-33-3a-65-72-72-6f-72} \frac1X\sum_{n\leq X}R_z(n) =C_z(f)+O\left(\frac{A_z P_z}{X}\right). \end{equation} For fixed $z$ this proves the local density limit. The error deliberately retains the modulus size; omitting it would be the invalid uniformity step. In particular, admissibility makes the finite products positive, but positivity of every finite product does not on its own supply (eq83:weighted).
Adversarial calibration: the wrong constant at the prime cutoff.
Take the admissible single polynomial $f(n)=n$. Then $N_p=1$ and $C_z(f)=1$ for every $z$. Nevertheless, with $z=\sqrt X$, all integers $1\leq n\leq X$ coprime to $P_z$ are exactly $1$ and primes exceeding $\sqrt X$: a composite integer in that range has a prime divisor at most $\sqrt X$. Hence \[ \frac1X\sum_{n\leq X}R_{\sqrt X}(n) =\frac{1+\pi(X)-\pi(\sqrt X)}X \prod_{p\leq\sqrt X}(1-1/p)^{-1}. \] The prime number theorem and Mertens' product theorem give \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-65-71-38-33-3a-6d-69-73-6d-61-74-63-68} \frac1X\sum_{n\leq X}R_{\sqrt X}(n) \longrightarrow\frac{e^\gamma}{2}\ne1, \end{equation} where $\gamma$ is Euler's constant. These established inputs are discussed in [E1] and proved in the Mertens exposition [E2]. For the inequality note $0<\gamma<\log2$, for example from the usual integral bounds on the harmonic sequence; a numerical approximation is not needed to distinguish the constants.

Thus the local fixed-$z$ limit followed by $z\to\infty$ gives one, while the diagonal cutoff needed to recognize primes gives a different value. This explicitly falsifies the proposed unrestricted interchange of limits, even before nonlinear or simultaneous values enter. It is not a counterexample to Bateman--Horn: the ordinary prime count still has its correct asymptotic. The normalization error belongs to the overextended independent-local sieve model.

Attempt: the bridge that would actually be needed.
For general fixed polynomials a viable comparison must account for large prime factors and parity after the small-prime congruence restrictions. One possible sufficient form is a decomposition \[ \prod_i\vartheta_*(f_i(n))=R_{z(X)}(n)+\mathcal E_X(n) \] with a calibrated correction whose averaged value tends to $C(f)-\lim X^{-1}\sum_{n\leq X}R_{z(X)}(n)$, whenever that latter limit exists. Merely requiring $\sum\mathcal E_X=o(X)$ at an arbitrary deep cutoff is already false in the linear calibration. A different normalization or a genuine bilinear/parity analysis is needed, not just better bookkeeping of finitely many forbidden residues.

This observation is a constraint on an attack, not a new error estimate. For a small cutoff where (eq83:error) is effective, the rough values still include many composites. For a cutoff recognizing primality, the simple CRT error is useless and the conditional distribution is not the product model. The regime between them is the unsolved analytic content.

Stress test and computation.
The polynomials are fixed throughout; varying coefficients with $X$ would change the target. Repeated or proportional polynomial issues cannot be used to manufacture a local obstruction after the original admissibility and distinctness conditions are imposed. The companion script checks finite CRT means and counts prime values for two sample admissible tuples, without interpreting a finite ratio as an asymptotic proof. The all-prime weight avoids silently discarding prime-power terms. A proof of the full asymptotic would also imply the qualitative simultaneous-prime assertion of Section 54 of the original catalogue; that unresolved consequence is not an input used here.
Outcome.
Outcome: Exploratory approach with unresolved gap.

The weighted equivalent and fixed-cutoff local identities are proved, and the diagonal-cutoff constant mismatch gives a rigorous countertest to a natural but false limit interchange. No new prime-value asymptotic or admissible counterexample is obtained. The missing task is a calibrated large-factor and parity estimate for every fixed tuple, strong enough for (eq83:weighted); the CRT computation alone cannot supply it.

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