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An application constraining hypothetical minimal counterexamples to Artin's conjecture on the holomorphy of \\(L\\)-series is given.   More precisely, let \\(\\vartheta\\) be the virtual character of the Galois group \\(\\text{Gal}(E/F)\\) where \\(E/F\\) is a finite Galois extension of number fields and \\(\\chi\\) a character of \\(G=\\text{Gal}(E/F)\\) with Artin \\(L\\)-series \\(L(s,\\chi,E/F)\\). Artin's conjecture is that \\(L(s,\\chi,E/F)\\) is holomorphic in the whole complex plane except for a possible pole at \\(s=1\\). The character \\(\\vartheta\\) is defined by  \\[ \\vartheta=\\sum_{\\chi\\in\\text{Irr}(G)}\\text{ord}_{s=s_0}(L(s,\\chi,E/F))\\chi; \\]  here \\(s_0\\in\\mathbb{C}\\setminus\\{1\\}\\) and \\(\\text{ord}_{s=s_0}(L(s,\\chi,E/F))\\) denotes the order of zero or pole of the \\(L\\)-series at \\(s_0\\). It was \\textit{H. Heilbronn} [in Can. J. Math. 25, 870-873 (1973; Zbl 0272.12010)], who introduced the virtual characters \\(\\vartheta\\). Clearly \\(\\vartheta\\in\\text{Char}(G)\\) or \\(\\vartheta=\\)(zero-character) precisely when Artin's conjecture is true at \\(s_0\\) (i.e., no \\(L\\)-series has a pole there). Faithful irreducible Heilbronn characters were studied before. In order to find so-called minimal counterexamples to Artin's conjecture (minimal in a specific sense), the author considers so-called ``unfaithful minimal Heilbronn characters''.   His main result (Theorem 1) is in paraphrased form: Theorem. Let \\(\\vartheta\\) be an unfaithful minimal Heilbronn character of \\(G\\). Then there exists \\(P\\in\\text{Syl}_p(G)\\) for some prime \\(p\\) on which \\(\\vartheta|_p\\in\\text{Char}(P)\\) holds and where \\(\\vartheta|_p\\) is unfaithful. Then: 1) \\(p\\) is odd; 2) \\(G\\) is quasisimple with \\(|Z(G)|\\) not divisible by \\(p\\); 3) \\(P\\) is cyclic; 4) \\(N_G(P)\\) is a maximal subgroup of \\(G\\); 5. either \\(N_G(P)\\) is the unique maximal subgroup of \\(G\\) containing \\(\\Omega_1(P)\\), or \\(G/Z(G)\\cong L_2(q)\\) for \\(q\\) an odd prime with \\(p\\mid(q-1)\\) such that \\(\\Omega_1(P)\\leq N_G(Q)\\) for some \\(Q\\in\\text{Syl}_q(G)\\). -- The converse statement holds also; as to the precise formulation of it, see the paper.   The proof of Theorem 1 relies on a lot of technical lemmas connected to the classification of the finite simple groups. 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