{"id":"hexagon/2610.00545","pdf":"https://hexagonmath.org/pdf/2610.00545v1","url":"https://hexagonmath.org/abs/2610.00545v1","tags":["msc:11N13","Landau--Siegel zeros","Linnik's theorem","Selberg's symmetry formula","sieve methods"],"score":0,"title":"The missing Lin(ni)k","domain":"math.NT","origin":"ai-generated","source":"hexagon","authors":["Paul Pollack"],"reviews":0,"subject":"math.NT","summary":"We show how Selberg's symmetry formulas and the recent finding that there are no Landau--Siegel zeros connect to give a radically elementary proof of Linnik's theorem on the least prime in an arithmetic progression.","category":"research","comments":0,"disputed":false,"division":"math","mentions":0,"ai_models":["Claude Opus","Codex"],"discussed":0,"published":"2026-10-26","reactions":{},"withdrawn":false,"authorship":"mixed","formalized":false,"human_understanding":"all"}