Artin's conjecture on primitive roots

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Statement

Infinitude version

Suppose a is an integer that is not equal to 1 and is not a perfect square, i.e., a is not the square of an integer. Then, there exist infinitely many primes p such that a is a primitive root modulo p.

Density version

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Relation with other conjectures and known facts

Name of conjecture/fact !! Statement !! Conditional to ...
Hooley's theorem Artin's conjecture holds for all a (special cases of) generalized Riemann hypothesis
Gupta-Ram Murty theorem Artin's conjecture holds for infinitely many a Unconditional
Heath-Brown theorem on Artin's conjecture Artin's conjecture holds for all but two exceptional values of a. However, no explicit information about the explicit values of a Unconditional