Oscillation of Mertens’ product formula
Harold G. Diamond, Janos Pintz (2009)
Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux
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Mertens’ product formula asserts that as . Calculation shows that the right side of the formula exceeds the left side for . It was suggested by Rosser and Schoenfeld that, by analogy with Littlewood’s result on , this and a complementary inequality might change their sense for sufficiently large values of . We show this to be the case.