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CSM_RH Paper 69 — Centered Prime–Möbius Hankel Variance, Exact Fourier Kernel, and the Auxiliary-to-Root Bridge Audit

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CSM_RH Paper 69

Centered Prime–Möbius Hankel Variance, Exact Fourier Kernel, and the Auxiliary-to-Root Bridge Audit

Project: CSM_RH
Paper: 69
Version: v0.1
Date: 2026-09-09
Campaign: 46 — SEEDED_ARITHMETIC_STRIP_GAP_GENERATION
Auxiliary frontier: F-RH-020 — PRIME_PAIR_AVERAGED_CHOWLA_ABSOLUTEIZATION_ENERGY
Canonical root frontier: F-RH-017-v3
Status: F-RH-020 EXACTLY CENTERED / CURRENT LOG ENERGY CALIBRATED / ROOT BRIDGE NOT CERTIFIED
Canonical entry state: v1.59 / Paper 68 v0.1
RH_PROVED: FALSE
RH_DISPROVED: FALSE
GLOBAL_RH_CERTIFICATE: FALSE


Abstract

Paper 68 isolated the auxiliary energy

E2(X,H)=hHpXμ(p+h)2E_2(X,H) = \sum_{h\le H} \left| \sum_{p\le X}\mu(p+h) \right|^2

as a possible parity-breaking route from signed shifted-prime Möbius cancellation to absolute cancellation.

The present paper puts this energy into its exact operator and Fourier forms, and separates what is already controlled by the PESC seed from the genuinely missing variance.

Define

CX(h)=pXμ(p+h),C_X(h) = \sum_{p\le X}\mu(p+h), CX=1HhHCX(h).\overline C_X = \frac1H \sum_{h\le H} C_X(h).

Then the exact orthogonal decomposition is

E2(X,H)=HCX2+V2(X,H),\boxed{ E_2(X,H) = H|\overline C_X|^2 + V_2(X,H), }

where

V2(X,H)=hHCX(h)CX2.\boxed{ V_2(X,H) = \sum_{h\le H} |C_X(h)-\overline C_X|^2. }

Assume PESC (κ)(\kappa) and put

d=κ2,H=X1τ.d=\frac{\kappa}{2}, \qquad H=X^{1-\tau}.

Paper 68 proved, for τ<d\tau<d,

hHCX(h)Hπ(X)X(dτ)+o(1).\left| \sum_{h\le H}C_X(h) \right| \ll H\pi(X) X^{-(d-\tau)+o(1)}.

Therefore

HCX2Hπ(X)2X2(dτ)+o(1).\boxed{ H|\overline C_X|^2 \ll H\pi(X)^2 X^{-2(d-\tau)+o(1)}. }

Consequently, for every target exponent

0<η<dτ,0<\eta<d-\tau,

a bound

E2(X,H)Hπ(X)2X2ηE_2(X,H) \ll H\pi(X)^2X^{-2\eta}

is equivalent at fixed-power resolution to the centered variance theorem

V2(X,H)Hπ(X)2X2η.\boxed{ V_2(X,H) \ll H\pi(X)^2X^{-2\eta}. }

The signed mode has already been removed by the seed. F-RH-020 is therefore not a first-moment problem. It is a centered covariance problem.

Let M=MX,H\mathsf M=\mathsf M_{X,H} be the rectangular prime–shift Hankel matrix

Mh,p=μ(p+h),1hH,pX.\boxed{ \mathsf M_{h,p} = \mu(p+h), \qquad 1\le h\le H, \quad p\le X. }

If 1P\mathbf 1_{\mathbb P} denotes the all-one vector on the prime columns and

P0=IH1H1H1HP_0 = I_H - \frac1H \mathbf 1_H\mathbf 1_H^*

is the projection orthogonal to the constant shift vector, then

V2=P0M1P22.\boxed{ V_2 = \left\| P_0 \mathsf M \mathbf 1_{\mathbb P} \right\|_2^2. }

Equivalently,

V2=1PMP0M1P.\boxed{ V_2 = \mathbf 1_{\mathbb P}^* \mathsf M^* P_0 \mathsf M \mathbf 1_{\mathbb P}. }

The centered prime-pair Chowla kernel is

KH(p1,p2)=hHμ(p1+h)μ(p2+h)1HSH(p1)SH(p2),\boxed{ K_H^\circ(p_1,p_2) = \sum_{h\le H} \mu(p_1+h)\mu(p_2+h) - \frac1H S_H(p_1)S_H(p_2), }

where

SH(p)=hHμ(p+h).S_H(p) = \sum_{h\le H}\mu(p+h).

Then

V2=p1,p2XKH(p1,p2).\boxed{ V_2 = \sum_{p_1,p_2\le X} K_H^\circ(p_1,p_2). }

This identifies the exact missing arithmetic object: a prime-vector quadratic form of the centered short-shift Möbius covariance matrix.

There is also an exact Fourier representation. Let

AX(α)=pXe(pα),A_X(\alpha) = \sum_{p\le X}e(p\alpha), BX,H(α)=nX+Hμ(n)e(nα),B_{X,H}(\alpha) = \sum_{n\le X+H}\mu(n)e(n\alpha),

and

ZX,H(α)=AX(α)BX,H(α).Z_{X,H}(\alpha) = A_X(\alpha) \overline{B_{X,H}(\alpha)}.

Then, for every 1hH1\le h\le H,

CX(h)=01ZX,H(α)e(hα)dα.\boxed{ C_X(h) = \int_0^1 Z_{X,H}(\alpha) e(h\alpha) \,d\alpha. }

If

DH(t)=h=1He(ht),D_H(t) = \sum_{h=1}^{H}e(ht),

then

E2=0101Z(α)Z(β)DH(αβ)dαdβ,\boxed{ E_2 = \int_0^1\int_0^1 Z(\alpha)\overline{Z(\beta)} D_H(\alpha-\beta) \,d\alpha\,d\beta, }

and

V2=0101Z(α)Z(β)[DH(αβ)1HDH(α)DH(β)]dαdβ.\boxed{ V_2 = \int_0^1\int_0^1 Z(\alpha)\overline{Z(\beta)} \left[ D_H(\alpha-\beta) - \frac1H D_H(\alpha) \overline{D_H(\beta)} \right] \,d\alpha\,d\beta. }

Thus F-RH-020 is a centered near-diagonal Fourier/Hankel energy problem, not merely a supremum-over-frequency problem.

Current literature already gives logarithmic control. Lichtman proves, for H=XθH=X^\theta,

hHCX(h)θ,δHπ(X)(logX)1/3+δ.\sum_{h\le H}|C_X(h)| \ll_{\theta,\delta} H\pi(X) (\log X)^{-1/3+\delta}.

Since

CX(h)π(X),|C_X(h)|\le\pi(X),

this immediately implies

E2(X,H)θ,δHπ(X)2(logX)1/3+δ.\boxed{ E_2(X,H) \ll_{\theta,\delta} H\pi(X)^2 (\log X)^{-1/3+\delta}. }

So the auxiliary frontier is not "prove that the energy is smaller than trivial." That is known.

Its new content is exactly:

logarithmic centered energy savingfixed-power centered energy saving.\boxed{ \text{logarithmic centered energy saving} \quad\longrightarrow\quad \text{fixed-power centered energy saving}. }

Lichtman's proof is even stronger on the typical-factorization part. The key Fourier theorem and the Fourier decoupling lemma give, for the typical component,

E2,SHX2(logX)A/5+1.E_{2,\mathcal S} \ll \frac{ HX^2 }{ (\log X)^{A/5+1} }.

Since

π(X)2=X2(logX)2+o(1),\pi(X)^2 = X^2 (\log X)^{-2+o(1)},

the typical component has arbitrary fixed log-power savings as AA is increased. The final (logX)1/3+o(1)(\log X)^{-1/3+o(1)} scale comes from the sieve treatment of the atypical complement.

This matches Paper 68's local-factor calculation: purely local factorization naturally gives logarithmic decay.

The PESC seed also upgrades the zero additive frequency to fixed power. Uniformly for xXx\asymp X,

x<nx+Hμ(n)=M(x+H)M(x)HX(dτ)+o(1).\sum_{x<n\le x+H}\mu(n) = M(x+H)-M(x) \ll H X^{-(d-\tau)+o(1)}.

But current Fourier arguments require control over nonzero additive frequencies. Fixed rational frequencies introduce nonprincipal Dirichlet-character channels, and Papers 65–67 showed why a zeta seed alone does not provide fixed-power control there.

The exact Fourier identity also clarifies why F-RH-020 has no certified root implication yet. Smallness of the cross-spectrum

AX(α)BX,H(α)A_X(\alpha)\overline{B_{X,H}(\alpha)}

does not, by itself, imply smallness of the prime spectrum AX(α)A_X(\alpha). A lower coercivity theorem for the Möbius factor on boundary-sensitive frequencies is missing.

A zeta boundary zero is a multiplicative Mellin singularity. No certified theorem currently forces it to create a fixed-size component in the centered additive prime–Möbius Hankel energy.

Therefore F-RH-020 remains auxiliary.

The paper opens a bridge candidate:

F-RH-021
BOUNDARY MERTENS MODE PRIME-SAMPLING / HANKEL COERCIVITY

Desired shape:

if a zeta zero lies at

β=1d,\beta=1-d,

then along an unbounded sequence of XX,

V2(X,H)Hπ(X)2X2do(1)\boxed{ V_2(X,H) \gg H\pi(X)^2 X^{-2d-o(1)} }

for a suitable near-macroscopic HH.

If F-RH-021 were proved, then any F-RH-020 upper theorem with exponent η>d\eta>d would exclude the boundary zero and create a genuine root bridge.

No such coercivity theorem is currently certified.

No RH theorem is claimed.


1. Prime–shift Hankel matrix

Let

PX={pX:p prime}.\mathcal P_X = \{p\le X:p\text{ prime}\}.

Define the H×π(X)H\times\pi(X) matrix

Mh,p=μ(p+h).\boxed{ \mathsf M_{h,p} = \mu(p+h). }

Let

1P=(1)pPX.\mathbf 1_{\mathbb P} = (1)_{p\in\mathcal P_X}.

Then

C=M1P\boxed{ C = \mathsf M \mathbf 1_{\mathbb P} }

is exactly the vector

(CX(1),,CX(H))T.(C_X(1),\ldots,C_X(H))^T.

Hence

E2=M1P22.\boxed{ E_2 = \|\mathsf M\mathbf 1_{\mathbb P}\|_2^2. }

This is an exact finite-dimensional representation.


2. Seed removal of the constant shift mode

Let

1H=(1,,1)T\mathbf 1_H = (1,\ldots,1)^T

and

P0=IH1H1H1H.P_0 = I_H - \frac1H \mathbf 1_H\mathbf 1_H^*.

The constant component of CC is

1H1H1HC=CX1H.\frac1H \mathbf 1_H\mathbf 1_H^*C = \overline C_X\mathbf 1_H.

Orthogonality gives

C22=HCX2+P0C22.\boxed{ \|C\|_2^2 = H|\overline C_X|^2 + \|P_0C\|_2^2. }

Thus

V2=P0M1P22.\boxed{ V_2 = \|P_0\mathsf M\mathbf 1_{\mathbb P}\|_2^2. }

Record:

B-RH-091
SEEDED_SHIFT_MEAN_REMOVES_THE_CONSTANT_HANKEL_MODE_AT_FIXED_POWER
CERTIFIED

3. Seed size of the mean mode

Assume PESC (κ)(\kappa) and let

d=κ2.d=\frac{\kappa}{2}.

Paper 68 gives

hHCX(h)Hπ(X)X(dτ)+o(1)\left| \sum_{h\le H} C_X(h) \right| \ll H\pi(X) X^{-(d-\tau)+o(1)}

when

H=X1τ,τ<d.H=X^{1-\tau}, \qquad \tau<d.

Therefore

HCX2=1HhHCX(h)2Hπ(X)2X2(dτ)+o(1).\boxed{ H|\overline C_X|^2 = \frac1H \left| \sum_{h\le H}C_X(h) \right|^2 \ll H\pi(X)^2 X^{-2(d-\tau)+o(1)}. }

If

0<η<dτ,0<\eta<d-\tau,

then this term is negligible relative to

Hπ(X)2X2η.H\pi(X)^2X^{-2\eta}.

Hence:

Theorem 3.1 — F-RH-020 centered reduction

For every fixed

0<η<dτ,0<\eta<d-\tau,

F-RH-020 at exponent η\eta is equivalent at exponent resolution to

V2(X,H)Hπ(X)2X2η.\boxed{ V_2(X,H) \ll H\pi(X)^2X^{-2\eta}. }

The unknown quantity is variance, not mean.


4. Centered prime-pair Chowla covariance

For each prime pp define

SH(p)=hHμ(p+h).S_H(p) = \sum_{h\le H}\mu(p+h).

Then

MP0M(p1,p2)=hHμ(p1+h)μ(p2+h)1HSH(p1)SH(p2).\begin{aligned} \mathsf M^*P_0\mathsf M(p_1,p_2) &= \sum_{h\le H} \mu(p_1+h)\mu(p_2+h) \\ &\quad - \frac1H S_H(p_1)S_H(p_2). \end{aligned}

Define

KH(p1,p2)=MP0M(p1,p2).\boxed{ K_H^\circ(p_1,p_2) = \mathsf M^*P_0\mathsf M(p_1,p_2). }

Then:

Theorem 4.1 — Centered Chowla quadratic form

V2=p1,p2XKH(p1,p2).\boxed{ V_2 = \sum_{p_1,p_2\le X} K_H^\circ(p_1,p_2). }

Record:

B-RH-092
F_RH_020_IS_THE_PRIME_VECTOR_QUADRATIC_FORM_OF_CENTERED_SHORT_SHIFT_MOBIUS_COVARIANCE
CERTIFIED

This is stronger bookkeeping than the uncentered off-diagonal expansion of Paper 68.


5. Exact Fourier representation

Define

e(t)=e2πit.e(t)=e^{2\pi it}.

Let

AX(α)=pXe(pα)A_X(\alpha) = \sum_{p\le X}e(p\alpha)

and

BX,H(α)=1nX+Hμ(n)e(nα).B_{X,H}(\alpha) = \sum_{1\le n\le X+H}\mu(n)e(n\alpha).

Set

Z(α)=AX(α)BX,H(α).Z(\alpha) = A_X(\alpha) \overline{B_{X,H}(\alpha)}.

Then

01Z(α)e(hα)dα=pXnX+Hμ(n)01e((pn+h)α)dα=pXμ(p+h)=CX(h).\begin{aligned} \int_0^1 Z(\alpha)e(h\alpha)d\alpha &= \sum_{p\le X} \sum_{n\le X+H} \mu(n) \int_0^1 e((p-n+h)\alpha)d\alpha \\ &= \sum_{p\le X}\mu(p+h) \\ &= \boxed{ C_X(h). } \end{aligned}

This is exact for 1hH1\le h\le H.


6. Dirichlet-kernel energy

Define

DH(t)=h=1He(ht).D_H(t) = \sum_{h=1}^{H}e(ht).

Then

E2=h=1HZ(α)e(hα)dα2=0101Z(α)Z(β)DH(αβ)dαdβ.\begin{aligned} E_2 &= \sum_{h=1}^{H} \left| \int Z(\alpha)e(h\alpha)d\alpha \right|^2 \\ &= \boxed{ \int_0^1\int_0^1 Z(\alpha)\overline{Z(\beta)} D_H(\alpha-\beta) \,d\alpha\,d\beta. } \end{aligned}

Moreover,

hHCX(h)=01Z(α)DH(α)dα.\sum_{h\le H}C_X(h) = \int_0^1 Z(\alpha) D_H(\alpha) \,d\alpha.

Therefore:

Theorem 6.1 — Centered Fourier/Hankel kernel

V2=0101Z(α)Z(β)KH(α,β)dαdβ,\boxed{ V_2 = \int_0^1\int_0^1 Z(\alpha)\overline{Z(\beta)} \mathcal K_H^\circ(\alpha,\beta) \,d\alpha\,d\beta, }

where

KH(α,β)=DH(αβ)1HDH(α)DH(β).\boxed{ \mathcal K_H^\circ(\alpha,\beta) = D_H(\alpha-\beta) - \frac1H D_H(\alpha) \overline{D_H(\beta)}. }

Record:

B-RH-093
EXACT_CENTERED_FOURIER_HANKEL_KERNEL_FOR_SHIFTED_PRIME_MOBIUS_ENERGY
CERTIFIED

The second term removes precisely the constant shift mode already controlled by the seed.


7. Current unconditional energy bound

Lichtman's Theorem 1.1 gives, for

H=Xθ,0<θ<1,H=X^\theta, \qquad 0<\theta<1,

and every fixed δ>0\delta>0,

hHCX(h)θ,δHπ(X)(logX)1/3+δ.\boxed{ \sum_{h\le H}|C_X(h)| \ll_{\theta,\delta} H\pi(X) (\log X)^{-1/3+\delta}. }

Since

CX(h)π(X),|C_X(h)| \le \pi(X),

we have

CX(h)2π(X)CX(h).|C_X(h)|^2 \le \pi(X)|C_X(h)|.

Summing:

Theorem 7.1 — Current logarithmic F-RH-020 energy

E2(X,H)θ,δHπ(X)2(logX)1/3+δ.\boxed{ E_2(X,H) \ll_{\theta,\delta} H\pi(X)^2 (\log X)^{-1/3+\delta}. }

Record:

B-RH-094
LICHTMAN_SHIFTED_PRIME_THEOREM_ALREADY_GIVES_LOGARITHMIC_F_RH_020_ENERGY_SAVING
CERTIFIED_EXTERNAL_CALIBRATION

Thus the auxiliary frontier is specifically a log-to-power upgrade.


8. Typical-factorization component is much smaller

Lichtman's proof introduces the typical-factorization set S\mathcal S and proves the key Fourier estimate

supα0Xx<nx+HnSμ(n)e(nα)dxHX(logX)A/5.\sup_\alpha \int_0^X \left| \sum_{\substack{x<n\le x+H\\n\in\mathcal S}} \mu(n)e(n\alpha) \right|dx \ll \frac{HX}{(\log X)^{A/5}}.

His Fourier decoupling lemma then gives directly

E2,SHX2(logX)A/5+1.\boxed{ E_{2,\mathcal S} \ll \frac{ HX^2 }{ (\log X)^{A/5+1} }. }

Because

Hπ(X)2=HX2(logX)2+o(1),H\pi(X)^2 = HX^2 (\log X)^{-2+o(1)}, E2,SHπ(X)2(logX)1A/5+o(1).\boxed{ \frac{E_{2,\mathcal S}}{H\pi(X)^2} \ll (\log X)^{1-A/5+o(1)}. }

For any prescribed fixed B>0B>0, choosing A>5(B+1)A>5(B+1) gives

E2,SHπ(X)2(logX)B.\boxed{ E_{2,\mathcal S} \ll H\pi(X)^2 (\log X)^{-B}. }

Thus the Fourier-typical component already has arbitrary log-power energy saving.

The final quantitative scale of Theorem 1.1 is limited by the sieve treatment of the atypical complement, whose density estimate contains the (logX)1/3+δ(\log X)^{-1/3+\delta} term.

This is consistent with Paper 68's dimension-two local-factor ceiling.


9. Seeded zero-frequency Fourier power

The seed Mertens estimate gives, uniformly for xXx\asymp X,

x<nx+Hμ(n)=M(x+H)M(x)X1d+o(1)=HX(dτ)+o(1).\begin{aligned} \sum_{x<n\le x+H}\mu(n) &= M(x+H)-M(x) \\ &\ll X^{1-d+o(1)} \\ &= \boxed{ H X^{-(d-\tau)+o(1)}. } \end{aligned}

Therefore the additive frequency

α=0\alpha=0

already has fixed-power short-interval Fourier cancellation.

Integrating over xx gives

X2Xx<nx+Hμ(n)dxXHX(dτ)+o(1).\boxed{ \int_X^{2X} \left| \sum_{x<n\le x+H}\mu(n) \right|dx \ll XH X^{-(d-\tau)+o(1)}. }

Record:

B-RH-095
PESC_SEED_GIVES_FIXED_POWER_SHORT_INTERVAL_MOBIUS_FOURIER_CONTROL_AT_ALPHA_ZERO
CERTIFIED

The missing fixed-power Fourier information is nonzero frequency information.


10. Why current Fourier machinery does not immediately upgrade to power

Lichtman's key Fourier theorem is a supremum over all α\alpha.

On rational major arcs, additive phases are decomposed into Dirichlet characters.

Papers 65–67 certified:

principal character:
fixed-power improved by the zeta seed.

polynomial-conductor family:
averaged fixed-power improved by large sieve.

fixed/subpolynomial nonprincipal characters:
no individual fixed strip from the zeta seed.

absolute shift norms:
fixed character harmonics survive.

Therefore the seed improvement at α=0\alpha=0 cannot simply be promoted to

supα\sup_\alpha

at fixed power.

F-RH-020's centered Fourier kernel offers a possible route around the supremum, but no fixed-power theorem for that kernel is currently known.


11. Why F-RH-020 is not yet a root theorem

The root frontier concerns the prime error

ψ(x+H)ψ(x)H.\psi(x+H)-\psi(x)-H.

F-RH-020 controls a prime–Möbius cross-correlation.

In Fourier form, the observable is built from

Z(α)=AX(α)BX,H(α).\boxed{ Z(\alpha) = A_X(\alpha) \overline{B_{X,H}(\alpha)}. }

Smallness of ZZ does not algebraically imply smallness of AXA_X.

A lower bound on the Möbius factor is required on the frequencies where a hypothetical prime boundary packet lives.

At the abstract level:

ABε|AB|\ll\varepsilon

does not imply

Aε|A|\ll\varepsilon

without coercivity of BB.

The actual zeta boundary information is Mellin-multiplicative, whereas F-RH-020 is additive-shift spectral information.

No certified theorem currently transfers a boundary zero into a lower bound for the centered Hankel energy.

Create:

O-RH-159
PRIME_MOBIUS_CROSS_ENERGY_HAS_NO_ROOT_COERCIVITY_WITHOUT_A_BOUNDARY_MODE_SAMPLING_THEOREM
CERTIFIED_AS_BRIDGE_OBSTRUCTION

This is a bridge obstruction, not a claim that no such theorem can exist.


12. Conditional bridge candidate

The missing bridge may be stated explicitly.

Open:

F-RH-021
BOUNDARY_MERTENS_MODE_PRIME_SAMPLING_HANKEL_COERCIVITY

Desired theorem:

if

ρ=1d+iγ\rho=1-d+i\gamma

is a zeta zero on the PESC seed boundary, then for some near-macroscopic

H=X1τH=X^{1-\tau}

and an unbounded sequence of XX,

V2(X,H)ρHπ(X)2X2do(1).\boxed{ V_2(X,H) \gg_{\rho} H\pi(X)^2 X^{-2d-o(1)}. }

If this were known and F-RH-020 supplied

V2(X,H)Hπ(X)2X2ηV_2(X,H) \ll H\pi(X)^2 X^{-2\eta}

with

η>d,\eta>d,

the boundary zero would be excluded.

Thus:

F-RH-020 + F-RH-021
would create a root strip improvement.

Neither theorem is currently certified at the required fixed-power level.


13. Matrix orientation and current averaged Chowla results

Lichtman's higher-correlation theorem proves strong averaged cancellation for matrices of the form

pXμ(p+h1)μ(p+hm)\sum_{p\le X} \mu(p+h_1)\cdots\mu(p+h_m)

when the shift variables are averaged.

For m=2m=2, this controls the column Gram matrix

MM\mathsf M^*\mathsf M

in an averaged entrywise sense.

F-RH-020 instead asks for

M1P22,\|\mathsf M\mathbf 1_{\mathbb P}\|_2^2,

a specific prime-vector quadratic form in the row orientation.

Averaged entrywise Chowla cancellation does not by itself give a fixed-power operator bound in the prime-vector direction.

This explains why the existing higher-correlation theorem is highly relevant but does not close F-RH-020.


14. Campaign status

After Paper 69:

F-RH-017-v3:
CANONICAL ROOT FRONTIER / OPEN.

F-RH-020:
AUXILIARY CENTERED HANKEL VARIANCE FRONTIER / OPEN.

F-RH-021:
AUXILIARY-TO-ROOT COERCIVITY BRIDGE / OPEN.

Certified:

constant shift mode:
fixed-power controlled by seed.

total shifted-prime Möbius energy:
log-saving known.

typical-factorization energy:
arbitrary fixed log-power saving known.

zero additive frequency:
fixed-power controlled by seed.

Open:

centered variance:
fixed-power.

boundary Mellin mode -> additive prime-sampling Hankel lower bound:
unknown.

15. Recommended next action

The next round should not immediately try to prove all of F-RH-020.

First test F-RH-021.

Question:

Does a zeta boundary pole force a critical-sized
prime-sampled Mertens covariance mode?

If no robust lower forcing can be proved, F-RH-020 should be closed as strategically auxiliary and the campaign should return directly to F-RH-017-v3.

If a coercive lower bound exists, then F-RH-020 becomes a genuine root attack rather than only a parity diagnostic.

This is the most important decision point for the current auxiliary route.


16. External calibration

16.1. Lichtman shifted-prime Möbius theorem

J. D. Lichtman, Averages of the Möbius Function on Shifted Primes, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 73 (2022), 729–757.

For H=XθH=X^\theta:

hHpXμ(p+h)θ,δHπ(X)(logX)1/3+δ.\sum_{h\le H} \left| \sum_{p\le X}\mu(p+h) \right| \ll_{\theta,\delta} H\pi(X) (\log X)^{-1/3+\delta}.

Its Lemma 2.1 is the Fourier decoupling inequality, and Theorem 2.2 gives arbitrary log-power Fourier savings on the typical-factorization component.

URL:

https://academic.oup.com/qjmath/article/73/2/729/6446139

16.2. 2026 short-interval higher uniformity

Matomäki, Radziwiłł, Shao, Tao and Teräväinen prove arbitrary log-power short-interval discorrelation for μ\mu and ΛΛ\Lambda-\Lambda^\sharp in the almost-all setting, while fixed-power estimates in the corresponding theorem are available for divisor-function residuals rather than for μ\mu or Λ\Lambda.

This confirms that the present fixed-power Möbius variance target lies beyond the current published quantitative theorem.

URL:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00222-026-01408-6


17. State transition

Advance candidate state

v1.59v1.60.v1.59 \to v1.60.

Add:

B-RH-091
SEEDED_SHIFT_MEAN_REMOVES_THE_CONSTANT_HANKEL_MODE_AT_FIXED_POWER

B-RH-092
F_RH_020_IS_THE_PRIME_VECTOR_QUADRATIC_FORM_OF_CENTERED_SHORT_SHIFT_MOBIUS_COVARIANCE

B-RH-093
EXACT_CENTERED_FOURIER_HANKEL_KERNEL_FOR_SHIFTED_PRIME_MOBIUS_ENERGY

B-RH-094
LICHTMAN_SHIFTED_PRIME_THEOREM_ALREADY_GIVES_LOGARITHMIC_F_RH_020_ENERGY_SAVING

B-RH-095
PESC_SEED_GIVES_FIXED_POWER_SHORT_INTERVAL_MOBIUS_FOURIER_CONTROL_AT_ALPHA_ZERO

O-RH-159
PRIME_MOBIUS_CROSS_ENERGY_HAS_NO_ROOT_COERCIVITY_WITHOUT_A_BOUNDARY_MODE_SAMPLING_THEOREM

Open:

F-RH-021
BOUNDARY_MERTENS_MODE_PRIME_SAMPLING_HANKEL_COERCIVITY
OPEN_AUXILIARY_BRIDGE

No RH certificate is created.


18. Conclusion

F-RH-020 is now structurally exact.

The PESC seed removes its constant shift mode at fixed power.

Current theorems already make its total energy logarithmically small, and make the Fourier-typical component arbitrarily log-small.

What remains is a centered variance theorem at fixed-power resolution.

But even such a theorem is not yet a root result: a boundary-zero-to-Hankel coercivity theorem is missing.

The next round should decide F-RH-021 before investing further in F-RH-020.