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On some products taken over the prime numbers

Number Theory 2022-07-19 v1

Abstract

This paper is devoted to study some expressions of the type ppxf(p)\prod_{p} p^{\lfloor\frac{x}{f(p)}\rfloor}, where xx is a nonnegative real number, ff is an arithmetic function satisfying some conditions, and the product is over the primes pp. We begin by proving that such expressions can be expressed by using the lcm\mathrm{lcm} function, without any reference to prime numbers; we illustrate this result with several examples. The rest of the paper is devoted to study the two particular cases related to f(m)=mf(m) = m and f(m)=m1f(m) = m - 1. In both cases, we found arithmetic properties and analytic estimates for the underlying expressions. We also put forward an important conjecture for the case f(m)=m1f(m) = m - 1, which depends on the counting of the prime numbers of a special form.

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@article{arxiv.2207.07957,
  title  = {On some products taken over the prime numbers},
  author = {Abdelmalek Bedhouche and Bakir Farhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07957},
  year   = {2022}
}

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23 pages