The fact that the Riemann zeta function zeta(s) and its brethren have a pole at s=1 is responsible for the infinitude of large classes of primes (all primes, primes in arithmetic progression; primes represented by a quadratic form). We cannot hope proving the infinitude of primes p=a2+1 in this way because the series sum1/p, summed over these primes, converges. This implies that the corresponding Euler product
zetaG(s)=prodp=a2+1frac11−p−s
converges for s=1. But if we could show that zetaG(s) has a pole at, say,
s=frac12, then the desired result would follow. Now I know that there are heuristics on the number of primes of the form p=a2+1 below x (by Hardy and Littlewood?)
Can these heuristics be explained by hypothetical properties of zetaG(s) (or a related Dirichlet series), or can the domain of convergence of zetaG(s) be derived from such asymptotics?
BTW, here's a little known conjecture by Goldbach on these primes: let A be the set of all numbers a for which a2+1 is prime (A={1, 2, 4, 6, 10, ldots}). Then every
ainA (a>1) can be written in the form a=b+c for b,cinA. I haven't seen this discussed anywhere.
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