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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Riemann Products

Speaking of Euler products associated to the zeta function, the totient function leads one to consider the product

p(1-1p)(1-1ps)=p[(1-1p)-1ps(1-1p)]
=p(1-1p)[1-p11p1s+p1,p21(p1p2)s-]

where one of the terms on the right hand side is a sum over k distinct prime factors. That is, in cancelling the φ() factors, we have that

1ζ(s)=1+k(-1)kp1,p2,,pk1(p1p2pk)s

which is a simple sum over all ordinals n composed of single prime factors. This may be rewritten

1ζ(s)=even1ns-odd1ns=nμ(n)ns

where the parity counts the number of prime factors in n, and 1 is an even prime. The function μ(n) is the Mobius function, which is zero for n with repeated prime factors.

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