Cutoff-free positivity of localized Weil forms through the (log 11)/2 threshold

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Abstract

We study the complete geometric Weil form on complex-valued functions supported in a compact interval. We give a computer-assisted certificate of strict positivity in both parity sectors for every support radius $0<a\le(\log 11)/2$. The proof represents the archimedean form as a diagonal digamma operator plus positive rank-one boundary responses of exponential Green kernels. It retains 350 complete physical responses and all their cross terms with the Fourier complement. Parseval identifies the total cross covariance by finite integrals, and increasing diagonal weights bound its infinite tail. A finite Schur matrix then provides a lower bound for the complete operator, rather than only its principal compression. The bounded prime operator is controlled by an exhaustive four-step enumeration on 200 cells whose endpoints are exact rational combinations of prime logarithms. At 256-bit Arb precision, interval Cholesky and complete seven- and six-dimensional Schur eliminations certify the two sectors. The supplement contains the full-run sources and results, explicit regeneration commands, a rerun prime enumeration, fresh elimination of the retained small matrices, symbolic Green-kernel checks, and the logs of a complete sequential regeneration from an empty directory on 8 November 2026 that reproduced the safe bases and response-family Parseval data bit for bit and re-certified all elimination pivots in both parity sectors. The closed-form comparison uses the smooth compact core and preserves the negative odd pole contribution. Block Schur complementation itself is standard; the contribution is the explicit complete-form certificate and its endpoint. This is finite-window positivity, not a proof of all-scale positivity, a new zero-free region, or the Riemann hypothesis.

Cutoff-free positivity of localized Weil forms through the (log 11)/2 threshold

Hongmin Li (Institute of Science Tokyo; The University of Tokyo)

1. Introduction

Weil's criterion expresses the Riemann hypothesis as positivity of an explicit quadratic form on every compact support. At a fixed support the form defines a semibounded self-adjoint operator with compact resolvent. Suzuki [1] gives an operator realization [1, Theorem 1.1 and Corollary 1.2], continuity of the lowest eigenvalue with respect to the support radius [1, Theorem 1.3], and small-window positivity [1, Theorem 1.4]. The question considered here is quantitative: certify positivity for every complex test function in the specific window

$$ a_* = \frac12\log 11 = 1.198947636399185\ldots. $$

Theorem 1.1. Let $A_a$ be the Friedrichs operator of the geometric Weil form on $(-a,a)$ in the normalization (2.1). Then

$$ \inf\sigma(A_a)>0\qquad(0<a\le a_*). \tag{1.1} $$

Both parity restrictions are strictly positive. If the first degeneracy radius is defined by $a_{\mathrm{deg}}=\inf\{a>0:\inf\sigma(A_a)\le0\}$, with the infimum of the empty set taken to be infinity, then $a_{\mathrm{deg}}>a_*$.

The proof uses a diagonal realization of the archimedean part and positive boundary responses of exponential Green kernels. A finite initial response family is retained in the lower operator. Its cross terms with the entire Fourier complement are evaluated by Parseval; a monotone diagonal weight pays the remaining infinite sum. Thus the endpoint assertion concerns the complete closed form, not just a finite matrix compression.

Block Schur complementation, Parseval's identity and monotone tail bounds are standard. The contribution is their explicit implementation for this Weil form, including the signed odd pole term, and the certified endpoint (1.1). We make no priority claim for the abstract Schur lemma below.

The finite-matrix-plus-tail strategy goes back to Yoshida [7], who proved strict positivity of the localized form on his space $K(\tfrac12\log 2)$, pole term included, by explicit high-frequency estimates combined with finite Hermitian matrices: a ten-dimensional one in the odd sector and a 200-dimensional one in the even sector, the latter eliminated by computer with interval bounds at every step [7, §6, pp. 302--310, and Theorem 1, p. 310]; small windows are positive by [7, Lemma 2, p. 289].

Zhu [2, Theorem 1.2 and Corollary 6.3] proves $Q(f)\ge 8.9\times10^{-18}\|f\|_2^2$ for all complex $f$ supported in $[-0.8,0.8]$, using a frequency-envelope reduction and Legendre compression; the same version withdraws an exploratory claim at half-width $1.19$ [2, §7]. Liu [3, Theorems A and B] gives computer-assisted coercivity constants $2^{-151}$ at half-width $1$ and $2^{-49162}$ at half-width $17/16$, using source-exact block Schur and tail compensation. Those are related finite-to-infinite mechanisms, and are not subsumed under a claim that Schur-based certification is new. Our endpoint $\tfrac12\log 11=1.1989\ldots$ exceeds those half-widths; unlike [2] and [3], Theorem 1.1 does not state an explicit coercivity constant. Our proof uses the exponential-response decomposition (3.4) and the full covariance (5.3).

Desogus [5] proposes an all-scale argument in the real odd channel. Its computer-assisted input is a certificate for the odd localized operator at $Y=e^{2a}=7$, that is, at support radius $\tfrac12\log 7$ [5, Certified finite computation 6.64]; an arithmetic Schur induction over the integer endpoints $\tfrac12\log N$, $N\ge7$, is then asserted to give odd positivity at every support radius and hence RH [5, Corollary 8.8 and Theorem 8.9]. We have not verified that induction, and nothing in this paper depends on it. The present theorem is a single explicit certificate for both parity sectors at $\tfrac12\log 11$.

The theta trials of bramble_trace [4] give unconditional upper bounds for fixed-window Rayleigh values. Such upper bounds do not supply positivity. Conversely, our lower certificate neither identifies the ground state nor estimates the sharp minimum. It gives no result at all support radii and does not prove RH or a new zero-free region.

2. The form and its parity restrictions

Use $\widehat f(t)=\int_{\mathbb R}f(x)e^{-itx}\,dx$ and $C_f(u)=\int_{\mathbb R}f(x+u)\overline{f(x)}\,dx$. On smooth compact functions put

$$ \begin{aligned} \mathfrak a_a[f]={}&\frac1{2\pi}\int_{\mathbb R} h(t)|\widehat f(t)|^2\,dt +2\operatorname{Re}\bigl(\widehat f(i/2) \overline{\widehat f(-i/2)}\bigr)\\ &-2\sum_{n\ge2}\frac{\Lambda(n)}{\sqrt n} \operatorname{Re}C_f(\log n),\\ h(t)={}&\operatorname{Re}\psi(1/4+it/2)-\log\pi. \end{aligned} \tag{2.1} $$

Here $\Lambda(p^k)=\log p$ and vanishes otherwise. The sum is finite on each fixed support. We use the closure of this semibounded form; (2.1) is the form $Q_W$ of [1, §1.1] with its archimedean term written on the Fourier side. Its operator has discrete spectrum bounded below [6, Theorem 3.6]. Suzuki identifies it with the Friedrichs extension of the symmetric operator $B_a=D^*G_aD$ on $H_0^1(-a,a)$ [1, Theorem 1.1]; the inclusion [1, (3.2)] in that proof shows that $C_c^\infty(-a,a)$ is a form core, and $\inf\sigma(A_a)$ is the infimum of the Rayleigh quotient over $C_c^\infty(-a,a)$ [1, Corollary 1.2]. The lowest eigenvalue is continuous in $a$ [1, Theorem 1.3].

Reflection commutes with the form. Identify each parity space unitarily with $L^2(0,a)$ by $f(x)=v(x)/\sqrt2$ for $x>0$ and $f(-x)=\varepsilon v(x)/\sqrt2$, where $\varepsilon=+1$ or $-1$. The pole term becomes $\varepsilon|\langle p_\varepsilon,v\rangle|^2$, where

$$ p_\varepsilon(x)=e^{x/2}+\varepsilon e^{-x/2}. \tag{2.2} $$

In particular $\|p_-\|_2^2=2(\sinh a-a)$; this negative term is retained.

Write $d_n=\log n$ and $\alpha_n=\Lambda(n)/\sqrt n$. The half-interval prime operator is the finite sum

$$ \begin{aligned} (B_{\rm p}^\varepsilon v)(x)=-\sum_{n\ge2}\alpha_n\bigl[& \mathbf1_{x+d_n<a}v(x+d_n) +\mathbf1_{x>d_n}v(x-d_n)\\ &+\varepsilon\mathbf1_{0<d_n-x<a}v(d_n-x)\bigr]. \end{aligned} \tag{2.3} $$

Endpoint values in these indicators do not matter. At $a=a_*$ the active values are $2,3,4,5,7,8,9$. The $n=11$ overlap has measure zero.

The orthonormal bases used throughout are

$$ \begin{aligned} e_0^+(x)&=a^{-1/2},& e_q^+(x)&=(2/a)^{1/2}\cos(q\pi x/a)\quad(q\ge1),\\ e_q^-(x)&=(2/a)^{1/2}\sin((q+1/2)\pi x/a)\quad(q\ge0). \end{aligned} \tag{2.4} $$

Let $k_q^+=q\pi/a$, $k_q^-=(q+1/2)\pi/a$ and

$$ D_\varepsilon e_q^\varepsilon=d_q^\varepsilon e_q^\varepsilon, \qquad d_q^\varepsilon=h(k_q^\varepsilon). \tag{2.5} $$

The symbol grows logarithmically and is bounded below. Thus its diagonal form is closed after a scalar shift. Smooth compact parity tests belong to its form domain, as follows from rapid decay of their coefficients.

3. Positive boundary responses

For $j\ge0$ set $c_j=2j+1/2$ and

$$ r_j^\varepsilon(x)= \frac{e^{-c_ja}(e^{c_jx}+\varepsilon e^{-c_jx})} {\sqrt{1-\varepsilon e^{-2c_ja}}}. \tag{3.1} $$

Lemma 3.1. On smooth compact parity tests, the half-interval form is

$$ \mathfrak a_a^\varepsilon[v]= \langle D_\varepsilon v,v\rangle +\langle B_{\rm p}^\varepsilon v,v\rangle +\varepsilon|\langle p_\varepsilon,v\rangle|^2 +\sum_{j\ge0}|\langle r_j^\varepsilon,v\rangle|^2. \tag{3.2} $$

The last series is nonnegative and convergent on these tests.

Proof. The convergent digamma difference expansion is

$$ h(t)=h(0)+\sum_{j\ge0}\left(\frac2{c_j} -\frac{2c_j}{c_j^2+t^2}\right). \tag{3.3} $$

The inverse Fourier transform of $2c/(c^2+t^2)$ is $e^{-c|x|}$. On the half interval, its parity-restricted kernel is $E_c^\varepsilon(x,y)=e^{-c|x-y|}+\varepsilon e^{-c(x+y)}$. Let $R_c^+$ be the Green operator of $-\partial_x^2+c^2$ with Neumann conditions at both ends; let $R_c^-$ have Dirichlet condition at zero and Neumann condition at $a$. Their eigenbases are (2.4). For $x\le y$ their kernels, multiplied by $2c$, are respectively

$$ \frac{2\cosh(cx)\cosh(c(a-y))}{\sinh(ca)},\qquad \frac{2\sinh(cx)\cosh(c(a-y))}{\cosh(ca)}. $$

Subtracting $E_c^\varepsilon$ and using symmetry gives the exact identity

$$ 2cR_c^\varepsilon-E_c^\varepsilon =r_c^\varepsilon\otimes r_c^\varepsilon, \tag{3.4} $$

where $r_c^\varepsilon$ is (3.1) with $c_j$ replaced by $c$. Apply (3.4) termwise to a finite partial sum of (3.3). The diagonal part is the corresponding partial sum of $h(k_q^\varepsilon)$; the difference is the sum of the positive rank-one forms.

The partial sums of $h(t)-h(0)$ increase to that function, so their quadratic forms converge by monotone convergence in both Fourier realizations. For compact tests separated from $a$, the inner products with (3.1) decay exponentially in $c_j$. Hence the rank-one series also converges. Adding (2.2) and (2.3) proves (3.2). $\square$

In the cosine basis the off-diagonal entries of the archimedean and pole parts were computed explicitly by Yoshida [7, (5.15)--(5.16), p. 301]; for $a=\tfrac12\log 2$ see [7, (6.25), p. 310]. Their boundary sums run over the same exponents $c_j=2j+\tfrac12$. Lemma 3.1, through the Green identity (3.4), regroups those entries into the positive rank-one responses $r_j^\varepsilon$, which is what allows the unused responses to be discarded in a lower form.

This identity is used on the smooth compact core. The proof below passes to the complete Weil form by closed-form comparison. It does not require identifying the full zero-extension form domain with a periodic Fourier space, nor declaring the infinite response family bounded on $L^2$.

4. A lower operator on the complete complement

Fix $a=a_*$ and one parity. Define the bounded self-adjoint operator

$$ B_0=B_{\rm p}^\varepsilon +\sum_{j=0}^{499}r_j^\varepsilon\otimes r_j^\varepsilon +\varepsilon p_\varepsilon\otimes p_\varepsilon, \qquad F=(r_{500}^\varepsilon,\ldots,r_{849}^\varepsilon). \tag{4.1} $$

Thus $F:\mathbb C^{350}\to L^2(0,a_*)$ is finite rank. Lemma 3.1 gives on the smooth compact core

$$ \mathfrak a_{a_*}^\varepsilon\succeq D_\varepsilon+B_0+FF^*. \tag{4.2} $$

Let $P$ project onto $e_0^\varepsilon,\ldots,e_{399}^\varepsilon$, and $Q=I-P$. The prime bound proved in Section 6 is $\|B_{\rm p}^\varepsilon\|<\rho_{\rm p}=2.931158$. Consequently

$$ B_0+\rho_\varepsilon I\succeq0,\qquad \rho_+=\rho_{\rm p},\qquad \rho_-=\rho_{\rm p}+2(\sinh a_*-a_*). \tag{4.3} $$

On the complete infinite-dimensional $Q$ space put

$$ T e_q^\varepsilon=t_qe_q^\varepsilon,\qquad t_q=d_q^\varepsilon-\rho_\varepsilon\quad(q\ge400). \tag{4.4} $$

The summands in (3.3) increase with $t\ge0$, so the sequence $t_q$ is increasing. Direct interval evaluation verifies $t_{400}>0$ in both parities. Define

$$ B_F=PF,\quad V=QF,\quad M=P(D_\varepsilon+B_0)P+B_FB_F^*,\quad C=PB_0Q+B_FV^*. \tag{4.5} $$

Here $C:QL^2\to PL^2$ is bounded. On $PL^2\oplus D(T^{1/2})$ consider

$$ \ell[x,y]=\langle Mx,x\rangle +2\operatorname{Re}\langle Cy,x\rangle+\|T^{1/2}y\|^2. \tag{4.6} $$

It is a closed semibounded form, since the cross term is a bounded perturbation and $P$ is finite dimensional. On every smooth compact test, subtracting (4.6) from (4.2) leaves

$$ \langle Q(B_0+\rho_\varepsilon I)Qy,y\rangle+\|V^*y\|^2\ge0. \tag{4.7} $$

Therefore $\mathfrak a_{a_*}^\varepsilon\succeq\ell$ on that core. For completeness, this comparison extends to the target form closure: shift both forms by a sufficiently large scalar to make them nonnegative. A sequence from the smooth core converging in the shifted target form norm is Cauchy in the shifted $\ell$ norm, by (4.7). Closedness of $\ell$ places its $L^2$ limit in $D(\ell)$, and passage to the limit preserves the inequality. Thus

$$ \mathfrak a_{a_*}^\varepsilon\succeq\ell \quad\hbox{on the complete target form domain}. \tag{4.8} $$

Completing the square in (4.6) gives

$$ \ell[x,y]=\|T^{1/2}y+T^{-1/2}C^*x\|^2 +\langle (M-CT^{-1}C^*)x,x\rangle. \tag{4.9} $$

If a finite matrix $G$ satisfies $0<G\preceq M-CT^{-1}C^*$, this form has a strictly positive uniform lower bound on $L^2$. Indeed, $T\ge\tau Q$ for $\tau=t_{400}>0$, and

$$ \|y\|\le\tau^{-1/2}\|T^{1/2}y+T^{-1/2}C^*x\| +\tau^{-1}\|C\|\|x\|. $$

Together with $G\ge gP$ for some $g>0$, this controls both components by the right side of (4.9). No numerical spectral-gap value is inferred from an individual elimination pivot.

5. Parseval covariance and the weighted tail

For $q\ge400$ let

$$ c_q=PB_0e_q^\varepsilon,\quad v_q=F^*e_q^\varepsilon, \quad U_q=c_q+B_Fv_q=Ce_q^\varepsilon. $$

Since $P$ is finite dimensional and $C$ is bounded, Parseval gives a trace-norm-convergent positive matrix series

$$ R_{\rm tot}=CC^*=\sum_{q\ge400}U_qU_q^*. \tag{5.1} $$

This total covariance is evaluated without truncating the $q$ sum. Put

$$ \begin{aligned} R_0&=PB_0^2P-(PB_0P)^2,\\ X&=PB_0F-(PB_0P)B_F,\qquad G_Q=F^*F-B_F^*B_F. \end{aligned} \tag{5.2} $$

Expanding $CC^*$ yields

$$ R_{\rm tot}=R_0+XB_F^*+B_FX^*+B_FG_QB_F^*. \tag{5.3} $$

All atom--atom and atom--base cross terms occur in this identity. The matrices on the right involve finite families of elementary exponentials and partial translations or reflections. Their integrals are evaluated exactly in terms of exponentials, with outward interval enclosures of the resulting constants.

With $q_f=8000$ define

$$ R_1=\sum_{400\le q<q_f}U_qU_q^*,\qquad G=M-\sum_{400\le q<q_f}\frac{U_qU_q^*}{t_q} -\frac{R_{\rm tot}-R_1}{t_{q_f}}. \tag{5.4} $$

Monotonicity of $t_q$ and positivity of each matrix summand imply

$$ \sum_{q\ge q_f}\frac{U_qU_q^*}{t_q} \preceq\frac{R_{\rm tot}-R_1}{t_{q_f}}, \qquad G\preceq M-CT^{-1}C^*. \tag{5.5} $$

Thus a positive-definiteness certificate for this $400\times400$ matrix proves positivity of the complete lower form (4.6), and hence of the complete Weil form. The finite family $500\le j<850$ is sufficient for this lower certificate; the omitted physical responses are nonnegative in (3.2). The Fourier complement in (4.4) and (5.1) remains infinite.

6. The prime operator bound

Let $\mathcal T$ be (2.3) with every coefficient replaced by its positive absolute weight and without its leading minus sign. It is self-adjoint, preserves nonnegative functions, and dominates both signed parity operators pointwise in absolute value. Schur's test gives

$$ \|B_{\rm p}^\varepsilon\|\le\|\mathcal T\|, \qquad \|\mathcal T\|^4=\|\mathcal T^4\| \le\operatorname*{ess\,sup}_{0<x<a_*}(\mathcal T^4\mathbf1)(x). \tag{6.1} $$

Each edge is a partial translation $x\mapsto x\pm\log n$ or reflection $x\mapsto\log n-x$, with the support specified in (2.3). The four-step row sum is constant on cells determined by their support endpoints and inverse images under words of length at most three. Represent every endpoint by its rational coefficient vector in $\log2,\log3,\log5,\log7,\log11,\log13$. Equality of these vectors is exact by unique factorization. Arb certifies the strict ordering of distinct endpoints. Thus cell enumeration is exhaustive rather than a sampled grid. The supplied script aborts on any order comparison that Arb cannot decide and asserts that the fourth root is below $2.931158$.

The supplied enumeration has 201 endpoints and 200 open cells. Within each cell it computes the four-step row sum as a polynomial in the positive edge weights $\Lambda(n)/\sqrt n$. Its maximum is enclosed by

$$ \operatorname*{ess\,sup}\mathcal T^4\mathbf1 \in[73.817062678870728252782186080550472646147554246990346635328981273454381577 \ \mathord{\pm}\ 2.16\times10^{-73}]. \tag{6.2} $$

Taking the positive fourth root gives $2.93115773570084639789936772898858995628\ldots<2.931158$, which proves (4.3). Values at the finite set of endpoints do not affect the operator norm. The enumeration source and its output are included in the supplement as certify_log11_prime_four_step_degree.py and prime-graph-check.txt.

7. Endpoint certificates and proof of Theorem 1.1

The certificate uses $K=400$, an initial response count $500$, the retained family $500\le j<850$, $q_f=8000$, and 256-bit Arb arithmetic. A preliminary $R=280$ construction selects exact dyadic Householder vectors; the resulting congruences act on the first 280 coordinates and leave the remaining 120 coordinates unchanged. Floating-point linear algebra selects these vectors only. Their normalization and all subsequent congruences are verified by interval arithmetic.

The matrix (5.4) is checked after that orthogonal congruence. Its block sizes are $7+393$ in the even sector and $6+394$ in the odd sector. Interval Cholesky verifies positivity of the larger block; a verified solve forms the remaining Schur complement; symmetric pivoting and interval elimination certify the complete smaller block.

The relevant positive intervals are:

$$ \begin{array}{c|cc} &+&-\\ \hline \text{minimum complement pivot} &0.040799562910896252229291041959\ \mathord{\pm}\ 10^{-30} &0.007336690629086577841762831004\ \mathord{\pm}\ 10^{-30}\\ \text{last core pivot} &3.68238777398334030\,10^{-50}\ \mathord{\pm}\ 5.91\,10^{-68} &3.64350282733546052388\,10^{-45}\ \mathord{\pm}\ 7.93\,10^{-66} \end{array} \tag{7.1} $$

The full core permutations are $(6,2,3,4,5,1,0)$ and $(3,5,4,1,0,2)$, respectively. All seven even pivots and all six odd pivots have strictly positive lower endpoints. The full arrays and the evaluated tail quantities $t_{400}$ and $t_{8000}$ are in the two supplied result files. The checker rejects a nonpositive or indeterminate pivot and an incomplete pivot list.

To identify this computation with (5.4), the source variables are BF = PF, RP = R_0, XF = X, GQ = G_Q, and RTOT = R_tot after the same ordered Householder congruence. The loaded scalar-complement base is P0 = P(D+B0)P - RP/t400. Accordingly the source expression

G = P0 + RP/t400 + BF*BF.transpose() - G1 - (RTOT-R1)/tQF

is precisely (5.4). G1 is its finite weighted prefix. This algebraic identification is essential: a positive result for another compressed model would not prove (1.1).

The intervals (7.1), together with the complete positive pivot lists, prove $G>0$ in each parity. Equations (4.8), (4.9) and (5.5) therefore give a positive lower bound for $A_{a_*}$.

For $a<a_*$, zero extension embeds smooth tests in the larger window without changing (2.1). The min--max principle, extended through the form closures, gives $\inf\sigma(A_a)\ge\inf\sigma(A_{a_*})>0$. This proves (1.1). Continuity of the lowest eigenvalue [1, Theorem 1.3] extends positivity to a neighborhood to the right of $a_*$, proving the stated strict inequality for $a_{\rm deg}$. $\square$

Remark 7.1 (scale of the bottom of the spectrum). Since $\inf\sigma(A_a)$ is non-increasing in $a$ (zero extension, as in the proof above) and is at most the infimum over real even tests, the unconditional geometric-side bound $\lambda^*(1.1)\le 2.78\times10^{-38}$ of [2, Table 3] gives $0<\inf\sigma(A_{a_*})\le 2.78\times10^{-38}$. The reference values of [2, Table 1] at half-width $1.2$, namely $7.94\times10^{-49}$ (even) and $4.76\times10^{-45}$ (odd), are not certificates and are converged only to within a factor of about two, but they indicate the scale. This is consistent with the very small final core pivots in (7.1) and explains the use of 256-bit arithmetic. It is not used in the proof.

8. Reproduction and limitations

The supplement includes the existing endpoint certificate, its six construction sources, all stage logs, the two interval result files, and the frozen-result verifier. It also includes a re-elimination of the retained seven- and six-dimensional Schur matrices, the four-step prime enumeration and a symbolic check of (3.4).

The historical complete matrix construction was performed on 10 September 2026. On 8 November 2026 the full sequential regeneration procedure in the supplement was rerun from an empty directory with the supplied sources, Python 3.10.12, NumPy 2.2.4 (OpenBLAS 0.3.28) and python-flint 0.9.0. The safe bases and the response-family Parseval data were reproduced bit for bit: their SHA-256 values equal those in PARENT-SHA256.txt. The floating-point Householder proposals differed, and hence so did the contracted bases and the final congruence. The interval stages nevertheless certified both sectors again: the minimum complement pivots are $0.0285554802\ldots$ (even) and $0.0071396860\ldots$ (odd), and all seven even and six odd core pivots are strictly positive, the last being $3.69634151865\ldots\times10^{-50}$ and $4.36409177409\ldots\times10^{-45}$. The numbers in (7.1) therefore belong to the retained run; a rerun in another floating-point environment gives different values, which must again pass the interval stages. The logs of the rerun are in rerun-20261108/. The supplied metadata, complete pivot counts, strict interval signs and frozen-file bindings were also checked again, the stored small Schur matrices were eliminated again with Arb, and the grid-free prime enumeration and symbolic identities were rerun.

The lightweight command is

uv run --with numpy python certificate/verify_frozen_results.py

The other short checks are

uv run --with numpy --with python-flint python verify_retained_core_matrices.py
uv run --with python-flint python certify_log11_prime_four_step_degree.py 256 11
uv run --with sympy python verify_green_response_identities.py

The reproduction manual in the supplement gives the full sequential construction from an empty working directory. Its dependencies are NumPy and python-flint; SymPy is used only for the extra algebraic check. The complete computation involves repeated interval matrix assembly and is substantially slower than the lightweight checks. In the retained even run, the sharp-prefix stage alone reached $q_f=8000$ after approximately 1474 seconds.

The result is a strict finite-window lower bound. It does not establish positivity above this window, a sharp spectral gap, all-scale Weil positivity, or RH. The small positive elimination pivots in (7.1) are not eigenvalue bounds. Increasing a finite response family has no automatic implication for larger support radii.

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Reviewer report

Accept

This is an appropriate revision of the accepted finite-window certificate. The endpoint, central theorem, analytic reduction, and retained certificate are unchanged. The additions improve attribution and reproducibility and provide a short interpretation of the spectral scale; they do not constitute a new substantive contribution requiring a separate submission. The resulting manuscript remains organized around the complete-form positivity argument, with detailed regeneration records in the supplement.

The expanded operator-theoretic citations are useful and consistent with the cited results. Suzuki [1, Theorem 1.1, Corollary 1.2, and inclusion (3.2)] supports the Friedrichs realization and smooth form core; Theorem 1.3 supplies continuity. Connes–Consani–Moscovici [6, Theorem 3.6] supplies discreteness and lower boundedness. The additional historical attribution to Yoshida [7] clarifies that finite-matrix verification with an infinite-tail argument is established methodology. The description of Desogus [5] accurately distinguishes its odd-channel base certificate and asserted all-scale induction from this paper's explicit two-parity endpoint certificate, without making that induction an input to the proof. The distinction from the published rStation theta-trial upper bounds [4] remains clear.

Remark 7.1 is a valid supporting observation. Zhu [2, Table 3] gives the stated unconditional geometric-side upper bound at half-width $1.1$ in the compatible normalization. Zero extension and the inclusion of real even tests in the full test space imply

$$ 0<\inf\sigma(A_{a_*})\le \inf\sigma(A_{1.1})\le\lambda^*(1.1)\le 2.78\times10^{-38}. $$

The remark correctly labels the half-width $1.2$ reference values as uncertified numerical indications and does not use them in the proof. Its comparison with elimination pivots should continue to be understood qualitatively: those pivots are not spectral-gap estimates.

The changes to the prime enumeration strengthen its verification behavior by rejecting undecidable interval comparisons and explicitly asserting the required fourth-root bound. I reran this modified calculation with 256-bit Arb arithmetic: it reproduced 201 endpoints, 200 cells, and $2.931157735700846\ldots<2.931158$. The symbolic Green-response and digamma-identity checks also passed.

The new regeneration records report successful complementary-block checks and complete positive core-pivot lists for both parities, with final pivots matching Section 8. The listed regenerated safe-base and response-family hashes agree with their historical counterparts. The manuscript appropriately distinguishes the retained run from the changed Householder proposals and pivots of the rerun. These are inspected author-supplied regeneration records, not a full matrix reconstruction independently performed during this review; the large construction exceeds the targeted-probe time budget.

Two minor documentation improvements remain:

  • Update REPRODUCTION.md, which still says that no full regeneration occurred during submission preparation and that no new runtime or peak-memory measurements are claimed. This conflicts with Section 8 and the newly supplied timing records. Also clarify that “sequential” describes the stages within each parity: the progress timestamps show that the two parity runs overlapped.
  • Consider including the new final small interval result files alongside the rerun logs. This would allow direct re-elimination of the new core matrices, as already possible for the retained run, without reconstructing the large intermediate matrices.

These qualifications do not undermine the accepted theorem or the revision. Acceptance remains for finite-window positivity through $a_*=(\log 11)/2$. The Riemann-hypothesis solve definition remains unmet.

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