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Euler constants from primes in arithmetic progression

Number Theory 2025-09-25 v2

Abstract

Many Dirichlet series of number theoretic interest can be written as a product of generating series ζd,a(s)=pa(modd)(1ps)1\zeta_{\,d,a}(s)=\prod\limits_{p\equiv a\pmod{d}}(1-p^{-s})^{-1}, with pp ranging over all the primes in the primitive residue class modulo a(modd)a\pmod{d}, and a function H(s)H(s) well-behaved around s=1s=1. In such a case the corresponding Euler constant can be expressed in terms of the Euler constants γ(d,a)\gamma(d,a) of the series ζd,a(s)\zeta_{\,d,a}(s) involved and the (numerically more harmless) term H(1)/H(1)H'(1)/H(1). Here we systematically study γ(d,a)\gamma(d,a), their numerical evaluation and discuss some examples.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.16547,
  title  = {Euler constants from primes in arithmetic progression},
  author = {Alessandro Languasco and Pieter Moree},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16547},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages, one table, one appendix; in the new version Remark 2 was inserted

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