A problem in comparative prime number theory
We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence (in the sense of finite dimensional distributions) of multiplicative measures on the set of partitions. The multiplicative measures depict distributions of component spectra of random structures and also the equilibria of classic models of statistical mechanics and stochastic processes of coagulation-fragmentation. We show that the convergence of multiplicative measures is equivalent to the asymptotic independence of counts of...
This Note completes and corrects a preceding Lincean Note by introducing through a tauberian theorem an appropriate condition which removes a counter-example provided by Dr. Zhang.
Mertens’ product formula asserts thatas . 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.
We solve a problem of Bombieri, stated in connection with the «prime number theorem» for function fields.