Abstract
One formulates a conjecture which contains Lehmer's conjecture as a special case and one derives an identity which is equivalent to the negation of the conjecture.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 91, pp. 52–80, 1979.
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Kuznetsov, N.V. Lehmer's conjecture. I. J Math Sci 17, 2116–2137 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01567591
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