We use the Dirichlet density form of the Chebotarev density theorem, the version directly proved by the permitted information at . If is a finite Galois extension of number fields with group and is a conjugacy class, let be the unramified prime ideals of whose Frobenius conjugacy class is . Then
The same conclusion holds for a union of conjugacy classes, replacing by the size of that union. The denominator may equivalently be the sum over all primes of . Here and below is real. This specifies the density being proved; an unweighted prime-counting asymptotic is a stronger formulation and is not being inferred merely from a limit at one.
First establish the necessary pole for a general base field. The Dedekind zeta function as a permutation Artin L-function gives it using exactly the allowed assumptions. Take a finite normal closure of , and let be the permutation representation on . Its trivial constituent has multiplicity one: an invariant function on the transitive set of embeddings is constant. At a rational prime, a basis of consists of the sums over inertia orbits of embeddings. Frobenius automorphism permutes these orbit sums. Within the decomposition-group orbit belonging to a prime of , the resulting cycle has length , because the residue embeddings are permuted cyclically by finite-field Frobenius. A cycle of length has determinant . Consequently the local factor of an Artin L-function gives
including at ramified primes. Decomposing gives
All factors after are holomorphic and nonzero at one by the allowed hypothesis. Thus has a simple pole there and
This argument also explains why the trivial relative Artin L-function is , rather than always the Riemann zeta function.
Now let be an irreducible character of , of degree . At an unramified prime the Euler product has local factor , where is a Frobenius representative. The eigenvalues of are roots of unity, since has finite order. Expanding the logarithm for therefore gives
where the finitely many ramified local factors contribute a function bounded as . They are nonzero and finite near one because their eigenvalues have modulus one while .
The terms are uniformly bounded. Indeed , and for and ,
There are at most primes of above each rational prime and each has norm at least that prime. Hence . Isolating proves the character prime sums in the Chebotarev proof identity
For nontrivial , the allowed holomorphy and nonvanishing at one give a local holomorphic logarithm and a bounded right side. The logarithm specified by the Euler series differs from that local branch by a constant multiple of on the real interval near one, so it too is bounded. For the trivial character, the right side is by the pole of . Thus
Expand the conjugacy-class indicator by character orthogonality. For ,
To see the coefficient, take its inner product with : . The irreducible characters form an orthonormal basis of class functions, so this is the full expansion. Substituting the prime-sum estimates leaves only the trivial character's logarithmic term:
Division by the diverging logarithm proves the theorem. The same trivial-character calculation shows that all primes of have density one; adding or removing finitely many primes does not change a Dirichlet density.
There is a necessary qualification for the final polynomial application: the printed claim is false for degree one. For example, is monic and irreducible in , yet has the root zero modulo every prime. We prove the intended assertion for degree .
Let be the splitting field of the monic irreducible polynomial over , and let be its roots. The Galois group acts transitively on . There is a derangement in a transitive group action: count the pairs satisfying . The orbit-stabilizer theorem gives
If every fixed at least one root, the identity, which fixes , would make this sum at least , a contradiction. Therefore some fixes no root, and neither does any conjugate of .
For completeness, relate this group action to reduction without assuming the desired splitting result. All roots are algebraic integers, since the polynomial is monic. Exclude the finitely many primes ramifying in or dividing the nonzero polynomial discriminant. At a prime over any remaining , the roots reduce to distinct elements of and give all roots of the reduced polynomial. Arithmetic Frobenius permutes them by . A reduced root belongs to exactly when it is fixed by this map. Because reduction is injective on the original root set, this happens exactly when the Frobenius permutation fixes an original root. This proves the Frobenius permutation and roots modulo a prime criterion.
The Chebotarev density theorem assigns the conjugacy class of our fixed-point-free the positive Dirichlet density . All but finitely many of these primes have rootless reduction, so there are infinitely many. More precisely, applying the same argument to the union of all fixed-point-free classes gives