Twin Primes Constant

The twin primes constant  (sometimes also denoted ) is defined by

			(1)
			(2)
			(3)
			(4)

where the s in sums and products are taken over primes only. This can be written as

(5)

where  is the prime zeta function.

Flajolet and Vardi (1996) give series with accelerated convergence

			(6)
			(7)

with

(8)

where  is the Möbius function. The values of  for , 2, ... are 2, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 30, 56, 99, ... (OEIS A001037). Equation (7) has convergence like .

 was computed to 45 digits by Wrench (1961) and Gourdon and Sebah list 60 digits.

(9)

(OEIS A005597). Le Lionnais (1983, p. 30) calls  the Shah-Wilson constant, and  the twin prime constant (Le Lionnais 1983, p. 37).

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