TITLE: What is the asymptotic behavior of this product?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: It is not very difficult to find lower and upper bounds for the product $$\prod_{ k=1}^n \left(1+\frac{1}{\sqrt k}\right)$$
For example one can easily prove that the product is greater than $n$ and less than $2^n$ (of course these bounds can be improved).
My question is: Is it possible to determine the asymptotic behavior of this product?

REPLY [5 votes]: $$\exp\sum_{k=1}^{n}\log\left(1+\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}\right)=\exp\sum_{k=1}^{n}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}-\frac{1}{2k}+O\left(\frac{1}{k^{3/2}}\right)\right) $$
equals
$$ \exp\left[2\sqrt{n}-\frac{1}{2}\log(n)+O(1)\right] $$
hence your product behaves like $\frac{e^{2\sqrt{n}}}{K\sqrt{n}}$ for large values of $n$. Are you interested in a explicit value for $K$? We approximately have $K\approx 3.1$.