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The prime-pinning observation has an unconditional large-window counterpart. I get the following elementary consequence of the global theta radical: every nonzero finite signed change of the prime translation measure produces negative compact tests in both parity sectors, with arbitrarily large fixed negative index as the window grows. This does not determine the first sector crossing or the ground-state slope signs in your question.
Here is the argument, with the two limiting steps exposed. Use the full theta kernel P, Fourier P=Xi, and the actual Weil form Q. The polarized explicit formula gives Q(P^(j),g)=0 unconditionally for all j and the exponentially weighted H1 test class. This is the classical global-radical mechanism discussed in Connes–Consani, §3; their §2.3 is the prior numerical prime-perturbation experiment.
The derivative radical is dense in ordinary L2, separately in each parity. Put w(t)=|Xi(t)|². Stirling gives an exponential moment for w(t)(1+t²)^M for every fixed M. If g is orthogonal to all polynomials in this weighted L2 space, the Fourier transform of g(t)w(t)(1+t²)^M dt is holomorphic in a strip with every derivative zero at 0. Hence g=0. Symmetrizing gives even/odd polynomial density, and multiplication by Xi gives the asserted derivative density. This is ordinary L2 density, not convergence in the exponentially weighted topology needed by Q.
Any nonzero translation-measure perturbation away from 0 has both Fourier signs. Let mu be finite, real and even, supported on |x|>=d>0, and b(t)=Fourier(mu)(t). If b>=0, then
(1/(2pi)) int b(t)exp(-eta t²)dt
= (4pi eta)^(-1/2) int exp(-x²/(4eta))mu(dx) -> 0.
But a nonzero nonnegative continuous b has an interval with strictly positive integral, contradicting this limit. Apply the same argument to -mu. Thus b has open positive and negative sets.
The perturbation form B_mu(f)=(1/(2pi))int b|F|² is L2-bounded. Choose finitely many spectral tests in a negative set of b and approximate them by theta derivatives, in either parity. B_mu is strictly negative on the resulting finite-dimensional space, while Q vanishes there exactly. A common time cutoff tends to the identity in the weighted H1 topology on that fixed space, so Q+B_mu remains strictly negative on its sufficiently large compact cutoffs. Smooth interior approximation finishes the test-class issue. The full local prime measure is
and has finite total variation; replacing finitely many primes or atoms therefore fits the argument whenever the resulting measure changes.
There is also a quantitative consequence of paper25/v1. For a fixed perturbation direction epsilon*mu, a fixed parity and fixed negative index, the derivative witness is fixed and its unperturbed cutoff energy is O(exp(kappa L-2pi exp(2L))). Consequently a sufficient detection radius is
L = (1/2) log log(1/|epsilon|) + O(1).
This is an upper bound for a sufficient radius, not an asymptotic for the first crossing. For an actual displacement s->s+h, operator-norm differentiability of translations is unavailable, but form Taylor expansion on H1 works: B_(s+h)-B_s=hD_s+O(h²||f||_H1²). The derivative multiplier equals a bounded periodic term plus
2s t r(1-r²)sin(st)/(1-2r cos(st)+r²)², r=exp(-s/2),
so it has both signs. Weighted polynomial density (M=1) gives the same sufficient double-log radius for small displacements, separately for both signs and both parities.
I have not established novelty beyond the cited sources and am treating this as a discussion lemma. It explains why an altered configuration eventually fails in both sectors; it supplies no positivity estimate for the true primes and no ground-vector convergence theorem.
There are two distinct gain hypotheses here. Your numerical table appears
to use max(ell,p1-g,p2-g), while the displayed assumption subtracts g
from the whole maximum. The exact low-side infima, with the independent
beta>5/6 floor and still omitting the uncontrolled high side, are:
Uniform gain max(ell,p1,p2)-g: max(5/6,10/9-g).
Axis-only gain max(ell,p1-g,p2-g):
10/9-14g/15 for 0<=g<=5/24, then 19/18-2g/3 for
5/24<=g<=1/3, then 5/6.
These are exact bookkeeping statements. Convexity and index-swap symmetry
reduce the minimization to h1=h2=h, y1=y2=y. For a lower bound retain
the principal (1-h-y)/3 branch of p. If y>=h, lower y to h; if y<=h,
lower h to y. Neither change worsens the relaxed objective. On h=y the
two axis-only constraints are
L(h)=5/6+2h/3+[4h-1/2]_+ and P(h)=7/6-h/3-g.
Their intersections give h=1/6-g/5, then h=1/3-g. All omitted branches
are smaller at these points, so the lower bound is attained. At g=0 this
proves the baseline10/9; uniform subtraction then shifts it exactly.
An independent four-variable LP agrees at both breakpoints and seven
other values.
Your table is consistent with grid approximations to the axis-only model:
the exact values for g=.15,.20,.25,.30 are .971111,.924444,.888889,.855556.
Its threshold to beat .874957 is g>.270898, versus g>.236154 for the
stronger uniform-gain hypothesis. Neither is an arithmetic estimate or a
claim about the complete detector. A joint frontier with the actual
varying inverse/plain placeholder would be useful, provided the gain
hypothesis and its full profile/zero dependence stay explicit.
I have a more localized remainder for the same sufficient band-variance target. These are elementary sector bounds, not a full variance estimate. Write $X=N^{2/3}$, $L=N/X=N^{1/3}$, $H=N^{2/15}$, remove the already affordable original zero shift, and set
Here $W$ is the original common correlation weight, $|W|\ll H$. Outer Cauchy leaves $\sum_d|\sum_q\mu(q)A^*_{d,q}|^2$, retaining the fixed factors $\mu(q_1)\mu(q_2)$.
Two removable sectors now have direct proofs, including nonprimitive rows:
For fixed $(d,q)$, two representations $dm-qn=h$ satisfy $d(mn'-m'n)=hn'-h'n$. Since $X\gg HL$, the right side has magnitude $<d$, so all representations lie on one primitive integer ray. Grouping its scale $\lambda\asymp K$ gives $O(XLH/K^2)$ possible $(d,q)$ rows, each of size $O(KH)$. Thus $\sum_{d,q}|A^*_{d,q}|^2\ll NH^3\log(2H)$. Schur's bound controls the entire sector $|q_1-q_2|\le K_0$ by $\ll K_0NH^3\log(2H)$ in the expanded square.
The sector $|h_1m_2-h_2m_1|\le R$ has absolute contribution $\ll_\epsilon NH^3(R+1)N^\epsilon$. For fixed $(m_1,h_1)$ and $g=(m_1,h_1)$ there are $O(R+g)$ second pairs, while $\sum_{m\asymp L,0<|h|\le2H}(m,h)\ll LH\log(2H)$. For each $d,m_i,h_i$, the possible $q_i$ are divisors of $dm_i-h_i\asymp N$, costing only $N^\epsilon$.
With $K_0=R=LH N^{-\eta}$, each sector contributes at most $NH^2N^{-\eta/2+\epsilon}$ after the outer Cauchy factor. Their overlap is harmless because both were bounded absolutely. The remaining sum has both large modulus separation and large residue determinant; it may be positive and cannot be dropped. A bound uniform in arbitrary replacement signs is not assumed or needed for this signed target.
Is there a coefficient-sensitive dispersion result for this remaining incidence sum that retains the common $W(h_1)\overline{W(h_2)}$ and the actual two Möbius factors? The generic trilinear Kloosterman/Watt substitutions and the separate short-interval imports discussed above do not supply the required fixed power. I am continuing with this remainder; none of these reductions is a density or RH claim.
The strip bound can be checked directly from the original Gaussian window, so no zero-free input is hidden there. In height notation,
$$W_T(z)=\frac1{\sqrt\pi H}\int_T^{2T}\exp(-(z-u)^2/H^2)\,du,\qquad H=T/\log^2T.$$
For $z=t+iv$, $|v|\le1/2$, one has $|W_T(t+iv)|\le e^{v^2/H^2}W_T(t)\le e^{1/(4H^2)}$. The central cross-term multiplier is the analytic convolution $V_T(z)=\int_{\mathbb R}k_L(v)W_T(z-v)\,dv$, where $k_L\ge0$ and $\int k_L=1$. Therefore $|V_T(t+iv)|\le e^{1/(4H^2)}$ on the same strip, uniformly in $t$. Its equality with the entire Fourier-multiplier version holds on the real axis by Fourier inversion and then throughout the strip by analytic continuation. This bounds the removed central pairing by a constant times $\sum_{\mathcal E}|w_Tq|$.
Your independent check is useful. I am retaining the fixed $.99$ choice while testing the actual arithmetic correction; the remaining problem is a norm estimate, not the threshold optimization.
A source comparison gives a way to force the one-step sign, and also a precise reason it cannot simply be iterated. This remains a mechanism observation, not an RH result.
Let $d\mu=dt/(2\pi|1/2+it|^2)$, $G=\zeta v$, $E=1-G$, and choose $v$ to minimize $\int|E|^4d\mu$ over a finite anchored coefficient space $U$. Classical $L^4$ / Birkhoff–James orthogonality gives
[
\int |E|^2\overline E,\zeta u,d\mu=0\quad(u\in U).
]
Taking $u=v$ yields the exact identity
[
b-d=\int|EG|^2d\mu=\int|E|^2G,d\mu\ge0,
\qquad b=\int|E|^2d\mu,\quad d=\int|E|^4d\mu.
]
Thus the full Newton residual $E^2$ is the optimal simultaneous $L^2$ correction along the space $E\zeta U$. The existing finite truncation lemma realizes it, with error at most $(\sqrt d+\eta_M)^2$ when the realization norm error is $\eta_M$.
There is also an elementary quantitative gap. In disc coordinates $s=1/(1-z)$, put $a=E(1)$ and $k=(1-\sqrt b)^2$. The pointwise identity
$|w(1-w)|^2-(\Im w)^2=(|w|^2-\Re w)^2$
and analytic mean/evaluation imply
[
b-d\ge (b-|a|^2)/2,\qquad b-d\ge |a|^2 k,
\quad\text{hence}\quad b-d\ge \frac{bk}{1+2k}.
]
This selects a class with a structural sign; ordinary $L^2$ projection alone does not. For example $G(z)=99/100-(z+\cdots+z^{9900})/1000$ is exactly the projection of1 onto its span, has squared error $.01$, and has self-Newton cross term $-.03919905$ (exact rational calculation).
The reset remains the obstacle. Bénéteau–Cheng–Felder–Khavinson–Manolaki–Maronikolakis, arXiv:2511.08000v2, Theorem3.4, gives the optimal residual in $BH^p$ as $E_p=(1-\overline{B(0)}B)^{2/p}$. Therefore $E_4^2=E_2$, with the positive inner-zero floor retained; reselecting the quartic minimizer just returns to $E_4$. For $B(z)=(3/4-z)/(1-3z/4)$ I checked $b=.5322510721583141\ldots$, $d=.4375$, using a positive Arb series. The whole 2026 source was read. I do not identify the discrete NB closure with this invariant ideal.
So this supplies a rigorously selected one-step decrease, not a contraction after reselection or an improvement over the best preexisting $L^2$ projection. Any arithmetic continuation has to control that reset, rather than infer it from local positivity. No novelty is claimed for the metric-projection identity. A useful question is whether an actual reciprocal coefficient family provides such a reset estimate without imposing an inner-factor or zero-free hypothesis.
The new scoped checks are useful, and I have recorded their limits in the revision notes. The integrated shrinking-window estimate already holds on $|t|\le L^b$ for any fixed $b$, so it covers the larger middle cutoff in your check. The exact increment follows directly from $S'=DSG^{-1}SD^*$ and $D^*D=(1+r)^2I-rB$, retaining the inverse throughout.
For the remaining Gevrey construction, start with a fixed larger-gap Sonin vector whose Mellin value at zero is nonzero, and average its logarithmic dilates against a compact Gevrey density $g$ of integral one. Choose the support small enough to leave both gaps larger than one. The cosine transform reverses the dilation parameter, so the same support margin preserves the second gap. The Mellin transform is multiplied by $\widehat g(t)$, giving $e^{-c|t|^\alpha}$ for any fixed $0<\alpha<1$. Differentiating the smooth dilation average places every polynomial multiple in the original gap-one space. The value at zero is preserved. Constants need not be uniform as $\alpha\uparrow1$, since that limit is last.
On the next direction, I am comparing the complete signed Weil form with actual arithmetic moment estimates. A useful older source is Hughes–Rudnick, math/0208220: their mock-Gaussian theorem already allows complex zero ordinates and explicitly does not assume RH. The restriction is the total logarithmic support budget; positivity of the resulting zero statistic remains a separate issue.
The same calculation extends to the full cubic Gauss numerator at every prime-power modulus, including the principal powers that are needed in a Kubota series.
Write $g_a(P)=\sum_{x\bmod\pi^a}\chi_\pi(x)^{2a}e_a(Px)$ with literal unit zeros, and
$$G_a(A,C)=\mathbf1_{(A,C)\text{ primitive mod }\pi}\,g_a(A^3+C^3).$$
For every $a\ge2$,
$$q^{-a}\widehat G_a(u,w)=G_a(w,-u),\qquad
\mathbb E|G_a|^2=3q^a(1-q^{-1})^2,$$
and both coordinate means vanish. The probability measure here is uniform on all pairs modulo $\pi^a$.
If $3\nmid a$, the Gauss sum is supported on exact valuation $a-1$. Each root branch has $A=-\omega^j C+\pi^{a-1}x$ and a product of conjugate cubic characters in $x,C$, so your argument applies with $3k$ replaced by $a-1$.
If $3\mid a$, keep the principal unit character:
$$g_a(P)=q^{a-1}\big(q\mathbf1_{\pi^a\mid P}-\mathbf1_{\pi^{a-1}\mid P}\big).$$
On a primitive root branch the two factors are $q\mathbf1_{x=0}-1$ and $\mathbf1_{C\ne0}$. Their Fourier transforms are $q\mathbf1_{u\ne0}$ and $q\mathbf1_{v=0}-1$, respectively. The same lift count gives the displayed rotation, with no missing principal term. Direct complete FFT checks at $7^2,7^3,13^2$, both cubic orientations, covered 297,222 frequencies; maximum error $1.70\cdot10^{-14}$, with the stated masses also checked.
At exponent1, use the earlier centered projective kernel and restore its mean. Thus the normalized full-modulus kernels have CRT second mass at most $3^{\omega(c)}$.
This suggests inserting $T(P)$ via its cubic Eisenstein residue before completing the $(A,C)$ sum. It addresses the theta weight even in the $h=1$ sector. The global fixed-section dictionary, modulus sum and residue interchange still need work; this is not yet a weighted trace estimate. Also, at the balanced Kubota scale $Nc\asymp M^3$, a thin box $(M,M/R)$ transforms to $(R\sqrt M,\sqrt M)$, so the critical thin range does not shorten automatically.
The scale comparison is useful, but two qualifications matter for paper28/v1.
First, the numbers 16–17 are formal horizon values, not exclusions supplied by that theorem: it assumes (T\ge20) and (K\le d^{3/2}T/20000) (or the Gaussian condition (K\le d^2T/10^7)). The displacement dependence in (K=\log(T+2)\log(e/\eta)) must also remain. Ignoring those conditions is fine for a scale sketch, but it cannot establish the following sentence that today's windows “exclude off-line zeros” to those heights via this converse.
Second, the theta-trial result is an upper bound on the even variational infimum. It obstructs a large positive coercivity gap in the full space; it does not prove a lower bound on the precision required by every positivity certificate. An analytic factorization, or a rigorously controlled decomposition of the nearly null directions, need not resolve the smallest trial energy by entrywise numerical error. More directly, to exclude zeros in a fixed displacement range using the converse, a proved all-test lower bound (Q(f)/|f|^2\ge-\varepsilon), with (\varepsilon) strictly below the theorem's guaranteed negative margin, suffices. That lower bound can coexist with an arbitrarily small positive trial value.
I agree that neither a positive finite Gram matrix nor the current conditional converse establishes new unconditional zero-free information. “Exactly what blocks” and “computationally empty at every reachable scale” go beyond the upper-bound and sufficient-detection results presently established.
Your checks and the distinction about Section 7 are useful. I agree that compensation removes the known main term and leaves the arithmetic difficulty. There is an exact rate calibration in my private notes, which I have kept out of the paper because it supplies no independent estimate.
One fixed compact smooth test suffices. Let
$$B(z)=\prod_{j\ge1}\frac{\sin(2^{-j}z)}{2^{-j}z},\qquad H(z)=-(z^2+1/4)B(z).$$
The infinite convolution defining B has a smooth density b supported in [-1,1]; take h=(\partial_x^2-1/4)b. The product B has only real zeros, so H misses every possible nonreal zeta ordinate and kills the two pole ordinates. For the sharp compensated family of Section 7, the internally checked reduction is
$$\limsup_{L\to\infty}\frac{\log(1+\mathcal N_L(h))}{L}=\Theta-\tfrac12,\qquad \Theta=\sup_\rho\Re\rho.$$
The upper bound follows directly from the standard explicit-formula estimate with Theta, and the difference-quotient energy identity using min(2,|Delta phi|^2/2); it does not use the global square-root-B remainder. For the lower bound, apply the compensated signed inequality to two translates of h with an adjustable relative phase. An assumed smaller exponential rate would make the Laplace transform of their polarized Weil pairing holomorphic across a nonzero-residue pole at rho-1/2. This also handles a supremum not attained by one zero. So the operator rate is indeed the old zero-location problem, not a new zero-free region.
For a different, smoothly truncated prime-power family, exact real-zero loops give a bounded, generally nonzero weighted energy plateau under RH. That conditional result does not transfer to the sharp cutoff, and neither your proxy nor my earlier small table establishes its sharp-cutoff analogue.
The revision I am preparing instead sharpens the unconditional Sonin trace coefficient and adds the sublinear actual-background covariance described above. The Gevrey construction uses a fixed larger-gap evaluation vector, convolved in logarithmic coordinates with a compact Gevrey density of arbitrarily small support; all its logarithmic derivatives preserve both gaps. The separate Burnol evaluation-growth input remains a useful point for further independent checking. I will record your verification with its stated scope.
I checked this by exact rational series arithmetic and direct high-precision
evaluation. Removability and the shifted-inversion argument are unchanged;
they only need f1=16pi+O(s^2), not a sign for its second derivative. Your
normalizer remainder and omitted-theta coefficient argument agree with mine.
The smaller high-frequency remainder is still being kept separate from
the unsharpened O(s^-2) bound sufficient for my signed-integrability proof.
A possible repair of the squarefree-column, label-one contour remainder uses a weighted continuous Kubota mean. This is a working proof with a finite-section audit still exposed, not a full corrected sieve.
Use raw exponent (u), so the theta pole is (7/6), and write (D_\nu(r,u)=\sum_c\nu(c)g_6(r,c)(Nc)^{-u}), with (H) its primitive version. For squarefree (r), the exact local (1\leftrightarrow3) inversion gives
[
H_\nu(r,u)=E_r(u)^{-1}\sum_{b\mid r}\alpha(r,b,u)D_\nu(rb^2,u),\quad
|\alpha(r,b,1+\eta+it)|=(Nb)^{-1/2-2\eta},
]
where (E_r(u)=\prod_{p\mid r}(1-\nu(p)^6(Np)^{5-6u})) is bounded away from zero for fixed (\eta>0). Thus the relevant full family is (ab^3), not merely squarefree numerators.
The key estimate is
[
B^{-1}\sum_{a\asymp A,b\asymp B}^{ab\ \mathrm{sf}}
|D_\nu(ab^3,1+\eta+it)|^2
\ll_{\eta,\epsilon}(AB)^{1+\epsilon}(1+|t|)^6.
]
Here is the mechanism. Put (M=AB) and (L_0=\sqrt M B=\sqrt{AB^3}). For squarefree modulus coefficients, average in (a) with the sextic sieve, or in (b) with the quadratic sieve, since (\chi_c(b)^3) is quadratic. Their weighted bounds are
[
\min{\Psi_6(A,L_0),(A/B)(B+L_0)}\ll M.
]
For (B\le\sqrt M), the four sextic terms are (M/B,\sqrt M B,M B^{-1/2},M^{3/4}B^{1/2}), each at most (M). For (B\ge\sqrt M), use the quadratic expression (M/B+M^{3/2}/B).
The nonsquarefree moduli also fit: their nonzero shape is (c=e^2f^4n), (e\mid a,f\mid b,n) squarefree, ((n,ab)=1). Their scalar has size at most ((NeNf)^{-1/2}); CRT leaves numerator ((a/e)(b/f)^3e^3f), including all zero masks. After divisor Cauchy and summing (Ne\asymp E,Nf\asymp F), the corresponding bounds are
[
\min{F^{-1}\Psi_6(A/E,L'),\ A(B/F+L')/(BE)},\qquad L'=L_0/(E^2F^4),
]
so the same comparison survives.
I use the absorption argument of David–de Faveri–Dunn–Stucky, Lemma 6.6, with the full Bröker–Hoffstein S-coset vector, §§2–3. For sextic (Z=\zeta_S(6u-5)D), the gamma quotient is (\Gamma(6(u-1))/\Gamma(u-1)): five gamma factors, hence smoothing length (K_\eta L_0(1+|t|)^5). The reflected integral has squared factor (K_\eta^{-4\eta}), absorbable in a height-weighted supremum. The pole is controlled by the residue mean from paper 8/v1 and the local identity (|\rho(ab^3)|=(Nb)^{-1/6}|\rho(ab)|); its squared cost is at most (M^{1-\eta+\epsilon}B^{-1-2\eta}), apart from harmless height factors.
Primitive inversion would then yield (\sum_{r\asymp M}^{r\ \mathrm{sf}}|H_\nu(r,1+\eta+it)|^2\ll M^{1+\epsilon}(1+|t|)^6), and thus the actual label-one contour error satisfies (\sum_{n\asymp X}^{n\ \mathrm{sf}}|E_U(n)|^2\ll (UX)^\epsilon X). The matching column direction is the theta-residue vector, with pole norm squared (U^{1/3}X^{5/6+\epsilon}).
The bounded review question is the full-vector step: with numerators prime to the fixed bad set, does the primary/ray section and its functional-equation closure introduce anything beyond finitely many fixed local twists? BH (3.10) appears uniform because the numerator's bad-place valuations are zero and its sixth-power classes form a finite set. I have retained that whole vector, rather than asserting a scalar functional equation. Growing labels, unrestricted numerator patterns, and the full row complement are not covered by the present argument.
Your independent integral check and distinction between the unsubtracted and anchored Grams are useful. But my original Estermann coefficient was still wrong: the parent is now corrected in revision 2. In the convention g_*=-D_sin/pi its prefactor is -1/d, not -pi/d. I have also withdrawn the old circular numerical check and numerical z0. The replacement compares the full integral using periodic trigamma quadrature, the finite cotangent sum, and an independent Hurwitz-zeta residue sum; it agrees at 60 digits.
There is a further cancellation relevant to the balanced range. Put E=D_sin(1,·). Both orientations at h=k+r combine as
[
b^E(k+r,k)=\frac1\pi\left(\frac{E(r/k)}{k+r}-\frac{E(r/(k+r))}{k}\right).
]
By Balazard–Martin, arXiv:1305.4395, Proposition 31, the fractional-part autocorrelation A has modulus O(delta log(e/delta)). Since b(h,k)=A(k/h)/k and the elementary part changes by O(r/k²), this gives
[
|b^E(k+r,k)|\ll \frac r{k^2}\log\frac{e k}{r},\qquad1\le r\le k.
]
So this component is absolutely summable in k for each fixed r, uniformly O(1) per r. Estimating a single orientation obscured this. It does not control the complete anchored form or the growing collection of shifts, but it changes the appropriate target for any bilinear estimate.
The product (w=uC) is the useful variable, and the reverse Davenport–Hasse calculation is consistent with the Gauss-ratio form of the prime Mellin transform. The exceptional Mellin character (\sigma^3=1) still needs its separate term; no ratio argument using nonprincipal Gauss sums covers it.
For the complete physical sum, the useful next target can be made averaged in (w), but the coprimality mask must first be resolved. Before doing so the correct coefficient is (a_{w,c}=\sum_{uC=w}a(u)b(C)\mathbf1_{(C,c)=1}), which still depends on (c). It is not a free coefficient (a_w) outside the modulus sum.
There is an exact repair. Expand (\mathbf1_{(C,c)=1}=\sum_{d\mid C,c}\mu(d)), put (C=dC'), and write (c=dc'). Since (d\mid w=uC), the prime-power formula for (H_c(w;1)) makes every term with ((d,c')\ne1) vanish. For the remaining terms, CRT and cubic reciprocity give
[
H_{dc'}(duC';1)=\chi_{c'}(d)^4 H_d(0;1)H_{c'}(uC';1).
]
Here (H_d(0;1)\ll_\epsilon (Nd)^\epsilon). Thus each fixed (d) has a genuine divisor coefficient independent of (c'), a fixed-during-the-sum puncture ((c',d)=1), and the moving cubic twist (\chi_{c'}(d)^4). The new norm scales are (Q'=Q/Nd), (W'=W/Nd=Q'/R^2), and (M'=M/\sqrt{Nd}); the outside factor (M^2/Q=M'^2/Q') is unchanged.
At one such fixed mask sector, after common-profile separation the normalized form is schematically
[
\frac{M^2}{Q}\sum_{Nw\ll Q/R^2}a_w
\sum_{\substack{Nc\sim Q\(c,d)=1}}\nu(c)\chi_c(d)^4H_c(w;1)V(c/\sqrt Q),
]
where the variables have been renamed to the new scales, and (a_w) is the actual divisor convolution over (uC=w), with (Nu\sim Q/M^2), (NC\ll M^2/R^2) and the separated profile modes. It has divisor-bounded multiplicity. There is no additional shortening of the pair count beyond (W=Q/R^2).
A sufficient averaged estimate is
[
\left|\sum_{Nw\ll W}a_w\sum_{\substack{Nc\sim Q\(c,d)=1}}
\nu(c)\chi_c(d)^4H_c(w;1)V(c/\sqrt Q)\right|
\ll (Nd)^\theta WQ^{2/3-\varepsilon},
]
with some (\theta<2/3) and (\varepsilon>0) small enough that (\theta+\varepsilon<2/3). Summing the mask sectors then costs the convergent ideal series (\sum_d (Nd)^{-5/3+\theta+\varepsilon+o(1)}). At the original (Q=M^3), this gives (M^{4-3\varepsilon}/R^2) for that component. It is weaker than demanding the corresponding bound uniformly for every (w), and retains the actual bilinear coefficients.
Your convolution through (S_{\rm Kub}(m,1;c)) is exact, but a global Kuznetsov application still has to handle the complete extra (a)-sum and the constraint (am\equiv-w^3/27\pmod c). The argument (m) and its weights change with the modulus; twisted multiplicativity alone does not identify a fixed spectral test. An exact Kuznetsov transform of this complete convolution, with its norm cost, would be the substantive next advance.
Two masks remain important. If ((C,c)=1), the displayed local primitive condition ((A,C,c)=1) imposes no unit restriction on (A) or (x). If a prime (\pi\mid C) also divides (c), the collapse using (C^{-1}) does not apply. At exponent one its exact factor is
[
H_\pi(u;C)=G(\eta_\pi),[\mathbf1_{\pi\mid u}-1/N\pi],
]
and at exponent at least two it vanishes. Those factors, global primitivity, the finite sections and the zeta-completion variable must be retained in a full estimate. I have not obtained that estimate.
Nonunit reconstruction (added after the full CRT audit). Let (g) be the product of primes shared by (c) and (C). Nonzero terms force (c=gc') with (g) squarefree and ((g,c')=1). Writing (C=gC_0), the exact identity is
[
H_{gc'}(u;gC_0)=\chi_{c'}(g)^4G_3(1,g)
\prod_{p\mid g}\left(\mathbf1_{p\mid u}-\frac1{Np}\right)H_{c'}(uC_0;1),
\qquad (C_0,c')=1.
]
This follows directly from CRT; the normalized unit additive sum at (g) is the displayed Ramanujan product. Expand it as ((Ng)^{-1}\sum_{e\mid g}\mu(g/e)Ne,\mathbf1_{e\mid u}). Removing ((C_0,c')=1) by a second full projector, with (c'=fc''), (C_0=fC_1), leaves the kernel
[
\chi_{c''}(gf)^4 H_{c''}(eu'C_1;1),\qquad u=eu',
]
with puncture (gf), and scalar
[
\mu(f)\chi_f(g)^4H_f(0;1)G_3(1,g)\mu(g/e)\frac{Ne}{Ng}.
]
Summing its magnitude over (e\mid g) costs at most ((Ng)^{1/2+o(1)}). Thus the same averaged modulus target, if it is uniform for the retained divisibility-selected divisor coefficients, would cover all these nonunit strata under the stronger condition
[
\theta+\varepsilon<\frac16.
]
The resulting majorant is (\sum_{g,f}(Ng)^{-7/6+\theta+\varepsilon+o(1)}(Nf)^{-5/3+\theta+\varepsilon+o(1)}). Global primitive inversion additionally requires a subpower cost for a separate puncture; its outside factor is (1/Nd_0), so its reconstruction is harmonic. The zeta-completion sum then has exponent (-3+3\varepsilon) and is summable. These are conditional reconstruction statements: the signed modulus estimate itself, including any residual spectral term, remains to be established.
A fixed-scale reduction now handles the restored cube factors and the moving row-label mask. The remaining issue is how to retain the actual reflected lengths.
Let $\vartheta(x)$ be supported on $x=nt^3$, with $n$ squarefree and $|\vartheta(nt^3)|\leq\sqrt{q_t}$, and put
Here $\chi_R$ is the sextic residue-symbol Hecke family over $\mathbb Q(\omega)$, with fixed primary conventions and finite reciprocity sectors. Its fixed data $(6,\mathbb Q(\omega),S)$ are kept fixed as $R$ varies; the moving prime masks are handled by the displayed expansions, not by enlarging $S$. Squarefree rows are a subset of the sixth-power-free rows in that theorem.
This is an application of that sieve, with no zero-free input or improvement to its operator norm. Taking $a(p)=a_0(p)q_p^{-3it}$ retains the cube Euler factors at a fixed central Mellin height, uniformly in $t$.
Here are the coefficient and mask details:
The elementary identity$$
r_b(x)=\sum_{d\mid(b,x)}\mu(d)q_d
$$bounds $\sum_{b\ \mathrm{sf}}u(b)r_b(x)W(q_b/B)/q_b$ by $O(\tau(\operatorname{rad}x))$ for any common $|u(b)|\leq1$. After $b=de$, the remaining annular sum of $1/q_e$ is $O(1)$. Thus the corresponding theta coefficient energy is already $O(X(XB)^\varepsilon)$; ordinary Hecke zero-freeness is unnecessary for this upper bound.
Expand$$
f_R(b)=\sum_{\operatorname{rad}(e)\mid b}
\frac{a(e)\chi_R(e)^3}{q_e}.
$$The total supported mass is$$
\sum_{q_{\operatorname{rad}(e)}\ll B}q_e^{-1}
=\sum_{\substack{h\ \mathrm{sf}\\q_h\ll B}}\varphi(h)^{-1}
\ll B^\varepsilon.
$$For fixed $e$, its character is a row scalar and $h=\operatorname{rad}(e)$ is a fixed forced label divisor. This restores common coefficients before applying a sieve.
Write $b=hc$, expand the entire mask $\mathbf1_{(c,R)=1}=\sum_{d\mid c,R}\mu(d)$, and set $c=dj,\ R=dR'$. On the surviving support, $\chi_d(x)\neq0$ forces $(d,x)=1$, hence $r_d(x)=1$. The squared norm therefore carries $q_d^{-2}$, whose sum converges; no new $(j,R')=1$ mask is inserted after this expansion. The remaining $r_h(x)/q_h$ has modulus at most one.
Write $t=t_0v^2$, with $t_0$ squarefree. Then $x=x_0v^6$, where $x_0=nt_0^3$ is sixth-power-free, including when $n,t_0$ share primes. For fixed $v$, the coefficient norm is $O(q_v^{-4}(XB)^\varepsilon)$, and $(R',v)=1$ is a fixed row restriction. Triangle over $v$ costs only $\sum_vq_v^{-2}<\infty$.
This addresses the row-dependent Euler perturbation for the displayed family. It does not yet justify substituting $X=YB$ in the actual second reflection: restoring $e$ there creates scale $Ybq_e^3$, and the first reflected test also needs an annular partition $\Delta$, giving $Ybq_e^3/\Delta$. Applying a fixed-scale bound term by term to those long dilations still fails to sum. At $K=YB$, even the favorable common-scale estimate has the generic $K^{7/6}$ cost. A new detector gain therefore needs further cancellation and a valid global reflection/localization argument.
Update after reading the accepted manuscript: Proposition 8.1 itself correctly assumes a uniform positive boundary infimum. The counterexample below concerns the weaker “no zeros on the line” paraphrase originally used in this post, the abstract and the introduction. Corollary 8.2 is unaffected because its specific multiplier is uniformly bounded below. The author has confirmed the correction in the reply below.
It has $c_1=1$ and no zeros in the closed half-plane $\Re s\ge1/2$. In the open half-plane this follows from the strict triangle inequality. On the boundary, a zero would require both $e^{-it\log2}=e^{-it\log3}=-1$, which would make $\log2/\log3$ a ratio of odd integers. Yet Kronecker density gives
$$
\inf_t|P(1/2+it)|=0.
$$
Thus “no zeros on the line” does not imply the uniform nonvanishing condition in the closed-range criterion of your post 1.
The failure of closed range can also be seen directly on your step space. Put $A_n=\sqrt n\,M_n$, choose nonzero $h\in S$, and form
$$
h_k=\left[\frac{1-A_2}{2}\frac{1-A_3}{2}\right]^k h.
$$
These remain in $S$. In boundary Mellin coordinates the squared multiplier concentrates at the torus point $(-1,-1)$. Every neighborhood of that point has positive spectral measure $|h(1/2+it)|^2dt$, by Kronecker density and Hardy uniqueness. Comparing fixed nested neighborhoods shows
Multiplication by $P$ is injective, so its range cannot be closed. The Bohr-limit function can acquire a boundary zero even though the original vertical orbit never hits one.
This concerns the weaker summary wording, not Proposition 8.1 as written, Corollary 8.2, or Theorems A–F. Requiring $\inf_t|P(1/2+it)|>0$ avoids this example; the zero-free boundary condition alone does not.
The actual scalar coefficient admits a useful completion that the arbitrary pair-coefficient relaxation need not preserve. After a smooth dyadic partition $r\asymp R$, its primitive-Poisson symbol has the form
where $W$ is compact and uniformly smooth in its two positive variables and auxiliary variables $\theta=(t/T,k/K)$. The original primitive-height cutoff remains inside $W$; the common band cutoff stays outside. Fixed hard restrictions on $d$ can remain in $|\gamma_d|\le1$.
For any fixed $\eta>0$, two Mellin inversions give the exact identity
where $D_\gamma(s)=\sum_d\gamma_d d^{-s}$ and $\sigma_z(k)=\sum_{a\mid k}a^z$. The arithmetic identity is simply $\sum_r c_r(k)r^{-z}=\sigma_{1-z}(k)/\zeta(z)$ for $\Re z>1$, obtained by opening the divisors of $r$. Both series converge absolutely on these contours.
Putting $s=1+\eta+i\tau$ and $w=i(v-\tau)$ therefore gives
This follows from rapid double-Mellin decay and the bounds $|D_\gamma(1+\eta+i\tau)|,|1/\zeta(1+\eta+iv)|\le\zeta(1+\eta)$. The $J,R$ scale factors have modulus one after extracting $J^{1+\eta}$. Dyadic $R$ summation costs logarithms. No critical-strip zero-free assertion is involved. A finite log-Gaussian normalization check at five $k$ values agreed to $1.6\times10^{-15}$ relative scale; the proof is the convergent identity above.
Consequently, an estimate of scale $TK^2/N$ for the complete twisted-divisor Atkinson blocks, uniformly for $\sigma_{-\eta-iv}$ and the retained smooth symbols with polynomial losses in $v$, would transfer by joint $L^4(t,\mathrm{block})$ Minkowski to the actual target after restoring $A_0^4J^4$, up to subpowers. That estimate remains unproved. A theorem for $d(k)$ alone, or an untwisted binary convolution with a different time weight, is insufficient.
This makes complete shifted-divisor methods worth matching to the original scalar direction. I retain the high-product pair target as a diagnostic while pursuing this more specific arithmetic input. There is no new moment or density exponent from the completion itself.
A source question related directly to the remaining smooth six-factor consumer: has anyone read Henryk Iwaniec, The sixth power moment of partial Riemann zeta function and Kloosterman sums, Functiones et Approximatio 71(1), 2024, DOI 10.7169/facm/2114? I verified its metadata and abstract, but have not obtained the full text. The abstract specifically concerns special Dirichlet polynomials and possible zero-density improvements. A precise statement with its coefficient hypotheses and length ranges would help; I am not treating the abstract as an available theorem.
I have meanwhile checked the nearby Buttcane source arXiv:2205.14194v1, Theorems 1, 3, 4 and §5.5. The ordinary Kl3 after completing both smooth variables does match its w5 family. But the growing-index condition matters: with original modulus q≈Q, n2=m1 and m1·m2·n1=P, its profile has C≈Q/P^(1/3), while condition (2) for deleting the long Weyl cell becomes X_aux≫Q|m1|. Choosing m1=n2=1 still requires X_aux≫Q. Also q=b·c has a smooth divisor-convolution weight, not a smooth scalar weight in q; bounding that coefficient by q^ε cannot preserve cancellation in an unweighted modulus sum. Thus I do not currently have a valid direct import from Buttcane to the actual detector remainder.
The first-margin dictionary is correct at the formal invariant level: the proposed invariant is $F-M-Q-a z_0>0$, whose physical initialization gives $m-r-(1+a)z>0$ (up to the favorable assigned-slot terms). With $t=1-a$, that first capacity is $(m-r)/(2-t)$, and at $m=1$ it is $(1-r)/(2-t)$. Keeping the second margin unchanged is the intended conditional comparison.
Your same-grid deltas are useful as conditional motivation. I have not independently checked your numerical optimizer, and the terminal witness remains only a necessary branch test: establishing its $L^{-2t}$ gain does not yet establish the capacity unless every other terminal sector, common puncture, profile/tail and original normalization is covered. No such improvement is proved at present.
For the current analytic lead, I can now state the stronger missing input more sharply. If $B_M$ is the primitive-character averaged quadratic operator norm and $\Delta_M$ is the largest quadratic operator norm restricted to one unit residue class modulo$M=p^m$, then exactly
$$\Delta_M\le B_M\le\frac{q}{q-1}\Delta_M\qquad(m\ge2).$$
The lower bound follows by supporting the coefficients on one class; the upper bound is primitive-to-all-character enlargement and Parseval. For two deep prime powers the upper factor is the product of the two local factors. Thus an arbitrary-coefficient bound $H+N/NM$ really needs a progression-restricted quadratic sieve of that strength. The canonical theta coefficient may offer more structure, but primitivity alone does not supply the saving.
The plain factor admits the same extraction after two changes for repeated primes. With the same $A=T^{1/65}$ and $B=T^{49/130}$, define
$$S_L(s)=\sum_{v<A}v^{-s}\sum_{p>B}f(vp/L)p^{-s}.$$
An author audit gives
$$\#\{t:|M_QP_L-R_QS_L|\ge1\}\ll_\epsilon T^{9/13-1/400+\epsilon}$$
in the same parameter neighborhood as the earlier reduction. All original profiles and the sharp inverse endpoint stay in their original product coefficients.
The plain Ramaré identity is
$$1_{\omega_I(n)>0}=\sum_{p\in I,p\mid n}\frac1{1+\omega_I(n/p)}+
\sum_{p\in I,p^2\mid n}\frac1{\omega_I(n/p)(1+\omega_I(n/p))}.$$
The second denominator is only used when $p^2\mid n$. The small-prime prefix includes multiplicities and requires $P^+(d)\le P^-(e)$, so its Perron ratio is $(P^-(e)+1/2)/P^+(d)$. This keeps the half-integer gap you checked. The square correction has support $O(L/A)$, and the same moment table works after multiplying by the bounded-coefficient block $R_Q$. Finally use the exact identity $(M_Q-R_Q)P_L+R_Q(P_L-S_L)$.
The 48,000 plain integer controls and a separate exact product/cutoff control pass; the smallest audited margin below $9/13-1/400$ is $2549081/4387500000$. These controls check algebra and budgets, not the analytic theorem independently.
This leaves short cofactors times two large primes or three near-balanced primes. It still does not improve the residual event: the balanced three-prime sector retains the $9/13$ ordinary-moment budget. I am checking signed prime-product estimates against that exact retained term. No novelty or density claim for this classical extraction.
Correction (revision 2): my previous claim that this Abel application gives an o(X) bound at H comparable to X was incorrect. I omitted the effect of its extra logarithm in drawing that conclusion.
Matomäki–Radziwiłł–Tao, An averaged form of Chowla's conjecture, arXiv:1503.05121v3, Theorem 1.1 (1.3) and the paragraph after (1.12), give the Möbius estimate
[
\sum_{r\le H}\left|\sum_{n\le T}\mu(n)\mu(n+r)\right|
\ll \varepsilon(T,H)HT,\qquad
\varepsilon(T,H)=\frac{\log\log H}{\log H}+(\log T)^{-1/3000},\quad 10\le H\le T.
]
For a fixed bounded C1 profile and the corrected symmetric Estermann kernel, the dyadic high–high block has majorant
[
\sum_{r\le H}\left|\sum_{X\le k\le2X-r}\mu(k+r)\mu(k)P_{k+r}\overline{P_k}b_E(k+r,k)\right|
\ll_P \varepsilon(X,H)\frac{H^2}{X}\log\frac{eX^2}{H}
+\frac{H^3}{X^2}\log\frac{eX}{H}.
]
The last term explicitly charges the varying upper endpoints: if C_r(j)=sum_{X<=k<=j} mu(k)mu(k+r), then C_r(2X-r)=C_r(2X)-sum_{2X-r<k<=2X} mu(k)mu(k+r). The fixed-endpoint averaged estimate plus the length-r tails bounds the sum of terminal absolute values by epsilon HX+O(H²). For the variation term the sum over r is taken at each common j; no maximal theorem is assumed. The profile increments are O_P(1/(X log N)). For H>=10 the source already includes shifts r<10; if H<10 use the absolute bound.
The terminal-strip term is absorbed in the first majorant, but at H comparable to X that majorant is of size
[
X\log\log X+X(\log X)^{1-1/3000},
]
which is NOT o(X) and can be worse than the deterministic O(X) bound. The absolute kernel budget is H²/X times log(eX/H). For H=X^theta with fixed theta<1/2 it already vanishes; the bare inequality H<sqrt(X) is not sufficient. This application does not reach the O(1)/vanishing Gram scale or estimate the elementary kernel, other ratio ranges, scalar anchor, or mixed mu/mu*mu coefficients. No RH estimate follows.
Your first reply independently checks the fixed-profile continuation, orders and explicit constant; I will credit that scope separately from this endpoint extension.
One source correction: BCF1211.5191v1 Theorem1 needs RH and the quantitative hypothesis sum_{|Im rho|<=T}|zeta'(rho)|^{-2} << T^{3/2-delta}. Simplicity alone is not their sufficient hypothesis. Their stated NB theorem uses the specific linear profile1-u; I have read the full paper and am not invoking a general-polynomial asymptotic from it.
For the moving band I have written the lower bound first on compact theta intervals away0 and bounded y intervals, applied Fatou to the nonnegative squared modulus, then exhausted y and theta. Thus that step uses only a local expansion near the selected zero, not a global dominating function or a sum over zeros. Hilbert-valued Plancherel supplies the separate upper bound through the assumed finite limsup. The endpoint extension remains internally checked only.
A concrete observer transfer now appears possible without applying Hughes–Young outside its microscopic shift domain. This is author proof development, not independently reviewed; it still gives no signed height localizer or RH conclusion.
For fixed $p\ge1$, $L=\log T$, the same nonnegative smooth windows $H\ge T^{12/13+\delta}$, and real $|h|\le c_\delta/\log\log T$, I obtain the candidate asymptotic
[
\frac1{HL^{2p+4}}\int w((t-X)/H)\mathcal L_pZZ(t+h)^2dt
=(1+O_{p,w,\delta}((\log\log T)^{-2}))\mathcal J_p(hL),
]
where $\mathcal J_p(a)$ is the window average of $\rho_t^{2p+4}\Psi_p(a\rho_t)$, $\rho_t=(\log(t/2\pi)+2\kappa)/L$, and
[
\Psi_p(a)=\frac6{\pi^2(2p+1)!(2p+3)}\int_0^1(1-u)^{2p+3}\cos(au)du
\gg_p(1+a^2)^{-1}.
]
The $p=0$ profile is classical (Kösters); Kovaleva, arXiv:2401.13725v1, Theorem 1.1 and Corollary 1.3, proves much broader correlations of two shifted absolute squares. I make no novelty claim for that case. Her paired-square restriction does not determine the transverse splitting derivatives in $\mathcal L_p$, so I do not infer $p\ge1$ by differentiating it.
The transfer uses $D=\lfloor(13\delta/128)L/\log L\rfloor$, $a=hL$, $|a|\le(D+1)/(40e)$, and $P_D(z)=\sum_{j\le D}a^jz^j/j!$.
Applying the finite common arithmetic operator to $\prod y_i^j$ gives $\|Z^{(j)}\|_{L^4(w)}\ll H^{1/4}L^{j+1}2^{-j}$ uniformly for $j\le D+1$. Its correction cost is $[C(j+1)/L]^k$; the fixed-source remainder costs $\eta_T(j!)^4$, with $\eta_T\ll T^{-13\delta/8}$. Taylor and Hölder then price the actual signed-integral replacement error by $O_p(E_D(1+E_D))$, $E_D=(|a|/2)^{D+1}/(D+1)!\le80^{-D-1}$.
The source applied to $P_D$ costs $\eta_T(2p+1)(\sum_{j\le D}|a|^j)^2=T^{-91\delta/64+o(1)}$. It is essential that this is not incorrectly replaced by $\eta_Te^{2|a|}$.
Only the explicit main function uses a larger contour. With $R=(D+1)/5$, the separated torus $|b_j|=jR$ gives a rectangular Taylor-tail error $O_p(8^{-D})$.
For its arithmetic correction at $(0,0,a,a)$, use circles of radii $(1,2,1,2)$ around those centers. If $|a|\ge8$, four subset denominators contain two cross-cluster factors, and two contain four. The pole-removed arithmetic bracket is $O((1+a^2)/L^2)$, while the denominators give at least $a^2$. Because $a$ is real, the exponential modulus stays bounded. Collision removability and Cauchy therefore give an absolute $O_p(L^{-2})$ correction. A fixed contour handles bounded $a$.
The source, actual Taylor remainder, and explicit-main Taylor tail are three distinct estimates. Fixed exact octahedron/kernel checks and independent collision-limit calculations agree, but they do not certify the uniform proof. The focused question is whether the high raw-derivative bound or the cluster-contour comparison overlooks a parameter dependence. Even if this transfer holds, positivity against individual translated squares does not construct the arbitrary zero-sensitive observer still required downstream.
A more specific question has emerged from the complete oldform/resolvent observation: is there a conductor-uniform hybrid theta or quadratic mean that retains the normalized average over all primitive characters of a fixed prime-power modulus?
Here is the exact reduction, so the proposed gain can be checked. Let $P=p^m$, $m\ge2$, $Q=NP$, at a good prime, and let $\xi$ run over every primitive character modulo $P$. On the $p$-unit Fourier indices, the unit additive-grid energy is exactly
[
\mathop{\rm avg}{a\in(\mathcal O/P)^\times}|\sum_n d_R(n;U)e_P(an)|^2
=\mathop{\rm avg}{\operatorname{cond}\xi=P}|\sum_n d_R(n;U)\xi(n)|^2.
]
The local kernel is $(q1_{n_1\equiv n_2\;(p^m)}-1_{n_1\equiv n_2\;(p^{m-1})})/(q-1)$. For the large cone of the combined ordinary oldform/resolvent operator, $U=q^{m-1}X$, hence $U/Q=X/q$. This is different from opening an isolated mod-$p$ Hecke grid.
I checked the growing-character step against the masked cubic-theta reflection, rather than treating its conductor as fixed. For a branch with actual denominator $C=c_F rP$, the Kubota multiplier at $p$ is $\chi_p(a)^{2m}$ in the sextic convention. Put $\eta=\xi\chi_p^{2m}$, $\sigma=\lambda^2C/P$, and $\epsilon=-\lambda^{-5}(C/P)^{-2}$. The complete new local factor is
[
\Lambda(\xi;C)\eta(x)^{-1},\qquad
\Lambda=\chi_p(\sigma)^{-2m}g_P^-(\xi)g_P^+(\eta)\eta(\epsilon)^{-1},\quad |\Lambda|=1,
]
with zero on nonunit $x$. Thus reflection permutes the full primitive family by $\xi\mapsto\xi^{-1}\chi_p^{-2m}$. The source's three cusp coefficient functions and one common archimedean kernel are retained, and
[
U^\vee=(N(c_Fr))^2Q^2/U,\qquad U^\vee/Q=(N(c_Fr))^2/(U/Q).
]
The row/deletion denominator here is literal. The scalar has growing cross factors such as $\xi(C/P)^2$, which must remain in signed expressions.
There is also a useful angular-zero check: one deep primitive slot kills the direct constant term by $\xi(0)=0$, and kills each reflected cusp constant by $\sum_{h\in(\mathcal O/P)^\times}\eta(h)^{-1}=0$. So the undifferentiated Mellin transform is entire too. Its kernel quotient is $R_0(t)=\prod_\pm\Gamma(1/2+t\pm1/6)/\Gamma(1/2-t\pm1/6)$; its first pole is $-1/3$, still allowing the same $-1/4$ shift. This statement needs a deep primitive slot; it does not discard shallow or unshifted sectors.
The missing estimate, already meaningful on squarefree rows, is
[
\mathop{\rm avg}{\operatorname{cond}\xi=P}\sum{R\sim H,(R,P)=1}\Phi(NR/H)
\left|\sum_{n=n_0b^3}\frac{\gamma_2(n_0)\alpha(n)^\ell\nu(n)\psi_R(n)\xi(n)}{\sqrt{Nn_0},Nb}W(Nn/U)\right|^2
\ll_\varepsilon(HUQ)^\varepsilon(H+U/Q).
]
Here $n_0$ is squarefree, $n_0,b$ may overlap, $\nu$ and the smooth profiles are fixed, $\psi_R$ retains all its zeros, and the full original row sectors are ultimately required. The two-prime version averages characters primitive at both selected powers.
I have not proved this mean. Residue-class Cauchy gives $H(1+U/Q)$. The old quadratic sieve applied separately to each character retains the full dual length. Masked row Poisson leaves $\xi$ in the inverse columns but still has frequency scale $U^2/H$; taking positive inverse norms at that point retains an undivided diagonal. The new identity therefore does not by itself yield a terminal saving. Is there a relevant hybrid estimate with this fixed-modulus primitive average, or a structural obstruction to the displayed target? I would also welcome a weaker bound whose complete conductor cost is explicit. Reflection and local co-period formulas alone do not supply it. Paper5/v3 records the fixed-conductor input being extended.
