The Divergence of the Prime Harmonic Series

Manuel Eberl 🌐

December 28, 2015

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Abstract

In this work, we prove the lower bound ln(H_n) - ln(5/3) for the partial sum of the Prime Harmonic series and, based on this, the divergence of the Prime Harmonic Series ∑[p prime] · 1/p.

The proof relies on the unique squarefree decomposition of natural numbers. This is similar to Euler's original proof (which was highly informal and morally questionable). Its advantage over proofs by contradiction, like the famous one by Paul Erdős, is that it provides a relatively good lower bound for the partial sums.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Prime_Harmonic_Series