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Is there any significance to this product?

$$\prod\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \left(1+\frac{1}{n^x}\right)$$

Basically taking the Riemann zeta function and trying to make it into a convergent product, because if you have a convergent sum then you can take the infinite product of 1+the sum and it will also converge.

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  • I don't know completely about sweeping applications, but I have asked questions about products very similar to this one, such as: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3511796/looking-for-a-name-for-a-particular-product-series-prod-j-1n-fracp-j-1 – wjmccann Apr 30 '20 at 05:35

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If $x$ is an integer $(x >1)$, there are nice formulae for the very first values of $x$ $$P_x=\prod\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \left(1+\frac{1}{n^x}\right)$$ $$P_2=\frac{\sinh (\pi )}{\pi }$$ $$P_3=\frac{\cosh \left(\frac{\sqrt{3} }{2}\pi\right)}{\pi }$$ $$P_4=\frac{\cosh \left(\sqrt{2} \pi \right)-\cos \left(\sqrt{2} \pi \right)}{2 \pi ^2}$$ $$P_6=\frac{\sinh (\pi ) \left(\cosh (\pi )-\cos \left(\sqrt{3} \pi \right)\right)}{2 \pi ^3}$$ It seems that, when $x$ is even, the formulae are quite "simple".

When $x$ is odd $(x>3)$, the result seems to be the reciprocal of products of gamma functions with complex arguments (the roots of unity). For example $$P_5=\frac{1}{\Gamma \left(1-(-1)^{1/5}\right) \Gamma \left(1+(-1)^{2/5}\right) \Gamma \left(1-(-1)^{3/5}\right) \Gamma \left(1+(-1)^{4/5}\right)}$$