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Mertens theorems for number fields

See Terence Tao's blog for the usual ones and how to derive them from Prime Number Theorem  

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/mertens-theorems/

 

I was particularly interested in the so-called third Mertens theorem, where $\gamma $ is Euler's constant:

\[ \prod _{0<p<x} \left( 1-\frac 1p \right) ^{-1} = e^{\gamma } \log x + O(1) . \] 

I wanted to have an analogue for number fields $K$:

\[ \prod _{\mathfrak p ,\ N(\mathfrak p ) < x} \left(  1-\frac 1{N (\mathfrak p) } \right) ^{-1} = C_K \log x + O_K(1)  \] 

for some constant $C_K>0 $.

Such a Mertens theorem turned out  to be already known. The paper by Rosen (link below) would suffice for me. The constant is

\[ C_K = e^{\gamma }\cdot \underset{s=1}{\operatorname{res}}  \zeta _K(s) . \] 

The proof consists of the Prime Ideal Theorem and Abel's summation method. 

 

Michael Rosen 1999 (where is the published version?)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266272896_A_generalization_of_Mertens'_theorem

It's published in J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 14 (1999), no. 1, 1--19, but there is no online version of this issue. 

 

The following papers have more explicit error terms.

 

Lebacque 2007

https://www.impan.pl/en/publishing-house/journals-and-series/acta-arithmetica/all/130/4/82396/generalised-mertens-and-brauer-8211-siegel-theorems

 

Garcia, Lee 2022

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11139-021-00435-6.pdf