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Contents
  1. Schinzel's Hypothesis H
  2. Definitions and mathematical statement
  3. Short English statement
  4. Research attempt
  5. Current frontier.
  6. Attack route.
  7. Attempt: density of admissible affine substitutions.
  8. Attempt: amplify a putative counterexample.
  9. Computation: check the parameter mechanism, not the conjecture.
  10. Stress test: why the averaging theorem still does not transfer.
  11. Stress test: explicit audit of the cited solution claim.
  12. Dependencies.
  13. Outcome.
  14. Sources

Schinzel's Hypothesis H

Definitions and mathematical statement

Let $f_1,\ldots,f_r\in{\mathbb{Z}}[x]$ be nonconstant irreducible polynomials with positive leading coefficients. The local admissibility condition is \[ \forall p\text{ prime}\ \exists n\in{\mathbb{Z}}:\quad p\nmid\prod_{i=1}^r f_i(n). \] The proposed conclusion is that $\{n\ge1:f_i(n)\text{ is prime for every }i\}$ is infinite. Irreducibility is over ${\mathbb{Q}}$ for primitive integer polynomials; local admissibility excludes fixed prime divisors. No asymptotic frequency is included in this qualitative assertion.

Formulation and concept references: [S1].

Short English statement

If irreducible integer polynomials have no fixed local obstruction, must they simultaneously take prime values infinitely often?

Research attempt

Current frontier.
For a single linear polynomial the conclusion is Dirichlet's theorem; for the general fixed family the available coefficient-averaging results have different quantifiers. Skorobogatov--Sofos, Theorems 1.1--1.2, show that almost all admissible tuples, ordered by coefficient height, have at least one simultaneous prime value. Their introductory warning that an almost-all one-value assertion cannot simply be iterated into a fixed-polynomial infinitude assertion is important here. [E1] Browning--Sofos--Teräväinen, Theorems 1.2 and 1.4 in the May 2026 revision, obtain averaged prime-value asymptotics with arbitrary fixed logarithmic power savings in the exceptional proportion. Their averaging is over coefficient boxes, not the affine substitution orbit of an arbitrarily prescribed tuple. [E2]

The 2026 Schinzel--Wójcik paper assumes Hypothesis H; it is not a proof of it. [S2] The catalogue's Golomb-method preprint claims a solution, but a specific identity and a limiting inference fail the checks below; neither is used as an established result. [S3], [E4] The Scavia download in [S1] could not be retrieved in this run, so its bibliographic details were not independently verified. The argument uses the complete explicit fixed-family formulation printed in this section, which agrees with the formulation inspected in the introduction of [E1]; no uninspected source-only hypothesis is added.

Attack route.
A finite covering by prime divisors cannot give a counterexample: local admissibility and the Chinese remainder theorem always leave a residue class avoiding any prescribed finite set of primes. Sieve methods would need additional parity-sensitive information to turn such avoidance into actual primes; the asymptotic sieve makes explicit that additional analytic input, rather than ordinary congruence counts alone, can matter. [E3]

The route pursued here tries to transfer a coefficient-average theorem to a fixed tuple without making the quantifier error just described. A single counterexample is stable under many substitutions $x\mapsto ax+b$. If sufficiently many of those substitutions retain admissibility, a counterexample forces a quantitatively large exceptional set in coefficient space. The questions are then exact: how many admissible substitutions exist, how much do they increase height, and is the forced exceptional set larger than the available upper bounds? The first two questions are answered below; the third exposes the unresolved gap.

Attempt: density of admissible affine substitutions.
Remove exact repeated polynomials, which does not change simultaneous primality. Keep the remaining ordered tuple $\mathbf f=(f_1,\ldots,f_r)$ fixed, with the hypotheses in the original statement. Put \[ \begin{gathered} F=\prod_{i=1}^r f_i,\qquad \Delta=\deg F=\sum_i d_i,\qquad D=\max_i d_i,\\ \nu_F(p)=\#\{b\bmod p:F(b)\equiv0\pmod p\}. \end{gathered} \] Admissibility gives $\nu_F(p)<p$ and ensures that $F$ is not the zero polynomial modulo any prime; hence $\nu_F(p)\le\Delta$ as well.

Lemma 54.1 (affine parameter density). Define \[ N_F(T)=\#\{1\le a,b\le T:\gcd(a,F(b))=1\}. \] Here $T$ is a positive integer and gcd is taken with the absolute value when needed. Then \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-64-65-6e-73-69-74-79} N_F(T)=\left(c_F+o(1)\right)T^2, \qquad c_F=\prod_p\left(1-\frac{\nu_F(p)}{p^2}\right)>0. \end{equation} This $c_F$ is a density in the two affine parameters; it is not the Bateman--Horn singular series.

Proof. Fix $z\ge2$. For each prime $p\le z$, exactly $\nu_F(p)$ of the $p^2$ residue pairs $(a,b)\bmod p$ satisfy both $p\mid a$ and $p\mid F(b)$. By the Chinese remainder theorem, the number of pairs avoiding these simultaneous divisibilities at all such primes is \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-66-69-6e-69-74-65-63-72-74} N_{F,z}(T)=c_{F,z}T^2+O_{F,z}(T+1),\qquad c_{F,z}=\prod_{p\le z}\left(1-\frac{\nu_F(p)}{p^2}\right). \end{equation} Any pair counted by $N_{F,z}$ but not by $N_F$ has a prime $p>z$ dividing $a$, and necessarily $p\le T$. A union bound gives \begin{align} 0\le N_{F,z}(T)-N_F(T) &\le\sum_{z<p\le T}\left\lfloor\frac{T}{p}\right\rfloor \nu_F(p)\left(\frac{T}{p}+1\right)\notag\\ &\le\frac{\Delta T^2}{z-1} +\Delta T(1+\log T).\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-74-61-69-6c} \end{align} Only the elementary bounds on the sums of $n^{-2}$ and $n^{-1}$ were used in the second line. Every factor defining $c_F$ is positive, and $\sum_p\nu_F(p)/p^2<\infty$, so the infinite product converges to a positive number. First divide (ra:1179:finitecrt)--(ra:1179:tail) by $T^2$ and take upper and lower limits as $T\to\infty$ with $z$ fixed. Then let $z\to\infty$. The error $\Delta/(z-1)$ disappears and both bounds converge to $c_F$. This justifies the order of limits and proves (ra:1179:density). $\square$

Lemma 54.2 (preservation and injectivity). Whenever $\gcd(a,F(b))=1$ and $a\ge1$, the tuple \[ \mathbf f_{a,b}(x)=\left(f_1(ax+b),\ldots,f_r(ax+b)\right) \] is admissible, consists of primitive irreducible integer polynomials, and retains positive leading coefficients and the same degree vector. Different positive $a$ and different $b$ give different ordered tuples.

Proof. If $p\nmid a$, the substitution $n\mapsto an+b$ permutes ${\mathbb{F}}_p$, so an allowed residue for $F$ gives one for $F(ax+b)$. If $p\mid a$, the gcd hypothesis gives $F(b)\not\equiv0$ modulo $p$, and every residue is allowed. This proves admissibility. Composition with an invertible affine map over ${\mathbb{Q}}$ preserves irreducibility over ${\mathbb{Q}}$. If a transformed polynomial had a nontrivial integer content, a prime dividing that content would divide the product at every integer, contrary to admissibility; hence it is primitive. The remaining sign and degree assertions follow from $a>0$.

For injectivity choose a member of degree $D$ and write its leading terms as $c_Dx^D+c_{D-1}x^{D-1}$. In its transform these two coefficients are \[ c_Da^D,\qquad a^{D-1}(D c_D b+c_{D-1}). \] The first determines the positive integer $a$, and the second then determines $b$. This also works for $D=1$, when the second coefficient is the constant coefficient. $\square$

There is a constant $C_{\mathbf f}\ge1$ such that, for $1\le a,b\le T$, \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-68-65-69-67-68-74} H(\mathbf f_{a,b})\le C_{\mathbf f}T^D, \end{equation} where height is the maximum absolute coefficient. Indeed, the coefficient of $x^k$ in $f_i(ax+b)$ is $\sum_{j=k}^{d_i}c_{i,j}\binom jk a^k b^{j-k}$, each summand being bounded by a fixed constant times $T^{d_i}$. Summing finitely many coefficients proves the bound. No claim about equidistribution of these coefficients is made.

Attempt: amplify a putative counterexample.
Fix the degree vector $\mathbf d=(d_1,\ldots,d_r)$, and let $E_{\mathbf d}(H)$ count admissible ordered tuples of distinct primitive irreducible integer polynomials of these degrees, with positive leading coefficients and height at most $H$, for which there is no positive integer giving simultaneous prime values.

Proposition 54.3 (bad-orbit amplification). If Hypothesis H fails for one tuple $\mathbf f$ of degrees $\mathbf d$, then there are constants $c_{\mathbf f}'>0$ and $H_{\mathbf f}$ such that \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-61-6d-70-6c-69-66-69-63-61-74-69-6f-6e} E_{\mathbf d}(H)\ge c_{\mathbf f}'H^{2/D} \qquad(H\ge H_{\mathbf f}). \end{equation}

Proof. Failure of the original infinitude conclusion means that some $B$ is larger than every positive integer at which the tuple is simultaneously prime. For $b>B$, $a\ge1$ and $n\ge1$, we have $an+b>B$. Thus every $\mathbf f_{a,b}$ has no simultaneous prime value at a positive integer. Among the $(a,b)$ with $1\le a,b\le T$, discarding $b\le B$ removes at most $BT=o(T^2)$ pairs. Lemma 54.1 leaves $(c_F+o(1))T^2$ admissible pairs, Lemma 54.2 gives that many distinct bad tuples, and (ra:1179:height) puts them at height at most $C_{\mathbf f}T^D$. Take $T=\lfloor(H/C_{\mathbf f})^{1/D}\rfloor$ and decrease a positive constant to absorb the integer part and the $o(1)$ term. This proves (ra:1179:amplification) for every sufficiently large $H$. $\square$

A rigorous sufficient improvement of coefficient-averaging is therefore \begin{equation}\label{wsref-0-72-61-3a-31-31-37-39-3a-6d-69-73-73-69-6e-67-65-73-74-69-6d-61-74-65} \boxed{\quad E_{\mathbf d}(H)=o(H^{2/D}) \quad\text{for every fixed degree vector }\mathbf d.\quad} \end{equation} If this estimate were established, Proposition 54.3 would rule out every fixed counterexample and prove the exact qualitative target. No Bateman--Horn asymptotic is demanded of the resulting fixed tuple.

The threshold is substantially sharper than the one obtained using translations alone, which would yield only $H^{1/D}$ bad tuples. The gain comes from proving that a positive proportion of the two parameters preserve admissibility, not from assuming that all dilations preserve it. This is a proved notebook deduction; no priority claim is made for this elementary amplification argument.

Computation: check the parameter mechanism, not the conjecture.
For three admissible products $F(b)=b$, $b^2+1$, and $b(b+2)$, exact enumeration gives the following numbers of good pairs: \[ \begin{array}{c|rrr} T & F(b)=b & F(b)=b^2+1 & F(b)=b(b+2)\\\hline 10&63&69&49\\ 100&6087&6729&4811\\ 1000&608383&671349&484132 \end{array} \] The following standard-library Python code reproduces the counts; it uses integer gcd, not floating-point primality tests. 
from math import gcd
for T in (10, 100, 1000):
    counts = []
    for F in (lambda b: b, lambda b: b*b+1,
              lambda b: b*(b+2)):
        counts.append(sum(gcd(a, F(b)) == 1
                          for a in range(1, T+1)
                          for b in range(1, T+1)))
    print(T, *counts)
These finite checks support the parameter bookkeeping only. The density and the amplification were proved above; the enumeration gives no information about whether $n^2+1$ or $(n,n+2)$ has infinitely many prime values.
Stress test: why the averaging theorem still does not transfer.
The orbit just constructed has only order $H^{2/D}$ points in a much larger coefficient space. Write $N=\sum_i(d_i+1)$ for the number of coefficients in a full box. Even an upper allowance of the form $H^N/(\log H)^A$, for every fixed $A$, is much larger than $H^{2/D}$ whenever $N>2/D$. It can contain an entire bad affine orbit. The logarithmic exceptional-set savings in the averaging literature therefore do not supply (ra:1179:missingestimate); the allowed coefficient cubes cannot simply be replaced by these curved orbits. [E2]

The exceptional corner is $r=1,D=1$, where $N=2=2/D$ and an appropriate logarithmic saving could beat this obstruction. That is consistent with the already solved single-linear-polynomial case, not evidence for the higher-degree or multiple-linear cases. More generally, a theorem excluding complete exceptional affine orbits might be sufficient without a global bound as strong as (ra:1179:missingestimate), but such a nonconcentration theorem is also unproved here. Calling the orbit "random" would not establish it.

A finite covering construction does not disprove H either. For any fixed finite set $\mathcal P_0$ of primes, choose for each $p\in\mathcal P_0$ a residue $b_p$ with $F(b_p)\not\equiv0\pmod p$. Chinese remaindering produces infinitely many integers avoiding all these prime divisors. This proves only finite-level avoidance. It does not permit the exchange of $\forall$ finite prime sets with one integer avoiding all primes, and the surviving values can still be composite with larger prime factors.

Stress test: explicit audit of the cited solution claim.
The transition to equation $3.9$ of Xiao's preprint treats $|\mu(f_i(n))|$ as periodic along a residue class modulo a divisor $d$. The congruence $d\mid F(n)$ is periodic, but squarefreeness is not. Already for the admissible polynomial $f(x)=x$, the asserted right-hand side becomes \[ \sum_{d\ge1}\mu(d)\log d\,|\mu(d)|\, \frac{z^d}{1-z^d}. \] Its coefficient at $z^4$ is $-\log2$, whereas the left-hand side $H_f(z)=-\sum_{p\text{ prime}}\log p\,z^p$ has coefficient zero there. Thus this specific identity is false, independently of any conjectural prime asymptotic. [S3], [E4]

There is a separate defect in the proposed final limiting justification following its equation $3.14$: a function's being a polynomial does not justify termwise limits in an unrelated infinite-series representation. [E4] For an elementary diagnostic, define on $0\le z<1$ \[ a_1(z)=1,\qquad a_n(z)=z^{n-1}-z^{n-2}\quad(n\ge2). \] The series is absolutely convergent for each $z<1$ and sums to the zero polynomial, since its $N$th partial sum is $z^{N-1}$. Yet \[ \lim_{z\uparrow1}\sum_{n\ge1}a_n(z)=0, \qquad \sum_{n\ge1}\lim_{z\uparrow1}a_n(z)=1. \] Pointwise absolute convergence, even to a polynomial, supplies no uniform tail estimate near the boundary. These tests reject the cited argument, not Schinzel's hypothesis, and they also explain why no analogous interchange was used in Lemma 54.1.

Dependencies.
A successful proof for all tuples would imply Dickson's conjecture in Section 1293 by specializing to linear polynomials, including the pair $(n,n+2)$. Conversely, the fixed-family Bateman--Horn asymptotic of Section 30006717, with its positive constant, would imply this qualitative infinitude assertion after removing duplicates. The proposed exceptional-set estimate is not derived from either unresolved statement.
Outcome.
Outcome: Conditional reduction.

The affine parameter density, preservation of admissibility, injectivity of the parameterization, height bound and $H^{2/D}$ counterexample amplification were proved. They yield the explicit sufficient estimate (ra:1179:missingestimate). The finite computation checks that parameter mechanism, while the source audit identifies two independent failures in one catalogue proof claim.

No exceptional-set estimate at the required strength was obtained, and no counterexample family was found. Existing coefficient-average results leave enough exceptional room for the entire affine orbit of a single bad tuple. The remaining task is therefore not a routine passage from "almost all" to "every": it is a new quantitative estimate or a structural theorem forbidding such exceptional orbits.

Sources