We use a proof by contradiction, assuming that the Riemann hypothesis is not true. Given Lemma 3.4, there are infinitely many superabundant numbers
n that do not satisfy
. Let
be the infinite sequence of superabundant numbers where
is false and
is the largest prime factor of
. Proposition 2.10 additionally implies that
for all
i. Equivalently, Lemma 3.6 implies that
. By Lemma 3.3, we conclude that there exists a finite, strictly increasing subsequence
of
m superabundant numbers, taken from the general sequence
, such that
where
is the primorial number of order
. Lemma 3.3 guarantees the existence of this subsequence of superabundant numbers
that can be made arbitrarily long, because for every fixed prime
p,
approaches infinity as
grows larger. To illustrate, consider a finite, strictly increasing subsequence
of
m superabundant numbers, satisfying the condition that
for
and
where
and
are the minimum and maximum elements of the subsequence, respectively. Utilizing inequalities (
3) and (
4), we deduce that:
This yields the trivial inequality
. While this is just one example, many such cases may exist. Therefore, by Lemmas 3.6 and 3.8, it suffices to show that the inequality
leads to a contradiction, because
is always greater than
when
is the smallest element in the subsequence. Definitely, that’s the same as saying
and it is clear that
due to the fact that
decreases as the subsequence
grows, and
according to Lemmas 3.6 and 3.8. Hence, our initial assumption has been contradicted. This proof by contradiction, combined with Proposition 2.6, establishes the truth of the Riemann hypothesis. □