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In this chapter, we prove N.G. Chebotarëv’s density theorem (Fig. 15.1). This important result regards densities of certain sets of prime ideals of a given number field. Dirichlet’s theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions is a special case.
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Schoof, R. (2008). The Density Theorem. In: Catalan's Conjecture. Universitext. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5_15
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