We study expressions of the type

, where

is a nonnegative real number,

is an arithmetic function satisfying some conditions, and the product
is over the primes

. We begin by proving that such expressions can be
expressed by using the

function, without reference to
prime numbers; we illustrate this result with several examples. The rest
of the paper is devoted to studying two particular cases related
to

and

. In both cases, we find arithmetic
properties and analytic estimates for the underlying expressions.
Received July 26 2022; revised versions received November 1 2022; December 15 2022.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences,
January 2 2023.