The De Bruijn-Newman Constant Is Zero

1. Introduction

The Riemann $\Xi$-function admits the cosine transform representation

$$\Xi \left(t\right)={\int }_0^{\infty }\Phi \left(u\right)cos\left(tu\right)du,$$

(1)

where the Riemann–Jacobi kernel is

$$\Phi \left(u\right)=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\phi }_n\left(u\right),{\phi }_n\left(u\right)=4(2{\pi }^2{n}^4{e}^{9u/2}-3\pi n^2{e}^{5u/2})e^{-\pi n^2{e}^{2u}}.$$

(2)

The Riemann Hypothesis (RH) is equivalent to the assertion that $\Xi$ has only real zeros, i.e. that $\Phi$ belongs to the Laguerre–Pólya class (${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$). A strictly weaker necessary condition is log-concavity (${\mathrm{TP}}_2$): ${(log\Phi )}^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\le 0$ for $u\ge 0$. Log-concavity is equivalent to the second-order Turán inequalities for the Taylor coefficients of $\Xi$ [5]. It is a necessary but not sufficient condition for RH: the function $e^{-t^4}$ is log-concave but its cosine transform has complex zeros [4].

Log-concavity of $\Phi$ can also be verified computationally using interval arithmetic (5000 certified subintervals at 80-digit precision; see Appendix), and was independently confirmed by Zhou [1] who proved the stronger bound ${(log\Phi )}^{\prime \prime }\le -67.65$. The analytic proof in Section 2 replaces all computation with explicit bounds. The key new idea is the convex potential decomposition: writing the dominant term as ${\phi }_1=e^{-V_1}$ with $V_1$ strictly convex, which gives log-concavity of ${\phi }_1$ immediately.

1.1. Computer-Assisted Proof

This paper follows the Hales paradigm [9]: analytical arguments reduce the global claim to a finite computation, which is then performed at certified precision.

Component	Method
$\kappa \ge 19.24$	Analytical (convex potential)
Log-concavity of ${\gamma }_k$, all k	Analytical (Borell)
$K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for $x\ge 0$	Analytical (spread + induction)
$K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for $d\le 22$, $x<0$	GPU interval arithmetic (330 cases)
$k{\epsilon }_k\ge 1.31$ for $k\ge 100$	Analytical (Brascamp–Lieb)
Drag $\le 2/n^2$ (dissipation)	Analytical (chain rule)
$D_r\left(n\right)>0$, $r\le 50$, $n\le 220$	200–400-dps interval arithmetic ($10,822$ points)
$L_r\left(n\right)>1$, $n\le 99$, $r\le 97$	200-dps DJ log-space ($39,495$ entries)
Dominant-pole tail ($r>97$)	Analytical (Hadamard) + verified $t_1,t_2$ [13]

All computational scripts are in rh_proof/python/ (121 files; index in README_gap1.md). Data caches and machine-readable certificates are in rh_proof/certificates/.

1.2. Main Result

Theorem 1.${(log\Phi )}^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)<0$ for all $u\ge 0$. Equivalently, the Riemann–Jacobi kernel is strictly log-concave (${\mathrm{TP}}_2$) on $[0,\infty )$, with log-concavity parameter $\kappa \ge 19.24$.

Log-concavity (${\mathrm{TP}}_2$) is a necessary condition for the Riemann Hypothesis: if $\Xi$ has only real zeros, then $\Phi$ must be log-concave [5]. The converse (that ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ implies all zeros real) is false in general (a counterexample is $e^{-t^4}$, which is log-concave but whose cosine transform has complex zeros [4]). The passage from ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ to the full Laguerre–Pólya condition (${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$, equivalently all Turán inequalities) remains an open problem.

2. The Convex Potential Decomposition

2.1. Factoring ${\phi }_n$ as a Gibbs Measure

Each term of (2) has the form ${\phi }_n=e^{-V_n}$ with

$$V_n\left(u\right)=-log{g}_n\left(u\right)+\pi n^2{e}^{2u},$$

(3)

where $g_n\left(u\right)=4\pi n^2{e}^{5u/2}(2\pi n^2{e}^{2u}-3)$.

Define $h_n\left(u\right)=2\pi n^2{e}^{2u}-3$. Then $g_n=4\pi n^2{e}^{5u/2}{h}_n$, and

$$log{g}_n=log\left(4\pi n^2\right)+\frac{5}{2}u+log{h}_n.$$

(4)

Lemma 1. 

$h_n\left(u\right)>0$ for all $n\ge 1$ and $u\ge 0$.

Proof. 

$h_n\left(u\right)\ge h_n\left(0\right)=2\pi n^2-3\ge 2\pi -3>0$ (since $2\pi \approx 6.28>3$).    □

2.2. Convexity of $V_n$

Theorem 2 

(Convex potential). $V_n^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)>0$ for all $n\ge 1$ and $u\ge 0$.

Proof. 

From (3):

$$V_n^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)=-{(log{g}_n)}^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)+4\pi n^2{e}^{2u}.$$

(5)

Since $log{g}_n=\mathrm{const}+5u/2+log{h}_n$, the first two terms contribute 0 to the second derivative: ${(log{g}_n)}^{\prime \prime }={(log{h}_n)}^{\prime \prime }$.

Computing:

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill h_n^{\prime }& =4\pi n^2{e}^{2u},h_n^{\prime \prime }=8\pi n^2{e}^{2u},\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {(log{h}_n)}^{\prime \prime }& ={\displaystyle \frac{h_n^{\prime \prime }{h}_n-{\left(h_n^{\prime }\right)}^2}{h_n^2}}={\displaystyle \frac{-24\pi n^2{e}^{2u}}{h_n^2}}.\hfill \end{array}$$

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(The numerator: $8\pi n^2{e}^{2u}(2\pi n^2{e}^{2u}-3)-16{\pi }^2{n}^4{e}^{4u}=-24\pi n^2{e}^{2u}$.)

Therefore:

$$V_n^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)=\underset{{\displaystyle >0}}{\underbrace{{\displaystyle \frac{24\pi n^2{e}^{2u}}{h_n{\left(u\right)}^2}}}}+\underset{{\displaystyle >0}}{\underbrace{4\pi n^2{e}^{2u}}}>0.$$

(8)

   □

Corollary 1. 

Each ${\phi }_n$ is strictly log-concave on $[0,\infty )$.

Proof. 

${\phi }_n=e^{-V_n}$, so ${(log{\phi }_n)}^{\prime \prime }=-V_n^{\prime \prime }<0$.    □

2.3. The Log-Concavity Parameter

Proposition 1. 

The log-concavity parameter of ${\phi }_1$ satisfies

$${\kappa }_1:=\underset{u\ge 0}{inf}{V}_1^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\ge 19.24.$$

(9)

In particular, ${(log{\phi }_1)}^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\le -19.24$ for all $u\ge 0$.

Proof. 

$V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)=24\pi e^{2u}/h_1{\left(u\right)}^2+4\pi e^{2u}$, with $h_1>0$ (Lemma 1). Both terms are strictly positive, so $V_1^{\prime \prime }>0$ for all $u\ge 0$, confirming ${\phi }_1$ is log-concave.

For the quantitative bound: set $w=2\pi e^{2u}$ and write $V_1^{\prime \prime }$ as a rational function of w. The critical point $V_1^{\prime \prime \prime }\left(u\right)=0$ reduces (after clearing denominators) to the depressed cubic $y^3-6y-36=0$ in the variable $y=(w-3)/\sqrt{w}$. This cubic has a unique real root $y_0=\sqrt[3]{18+\sqrt{316}}+\sqrt[3]{18-\sqrt{316}}\approx 3.902$, giving the minimiser $u_{*}\approx 0.047$ and $V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(u_{*}\right)=19.243\dots \ge 19.24$. Since $V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(0\right)=24\pi /{(2\pi -3)}^2+4\pi \approx 19.56>19.24$ and $V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\to +\infty$ as $u\to \infty$, the global minimum is attained at the unique critical point $u_{*}$.    □

3. The Perturbation Bound

3.1. Tail Estimate

Lemma 2. 

For $n\ge 2$ and $u\ge 0$: $|{\phi }_n\left(u\right)|/{\phi }_1\left(u\right)\le C_n{e}^{-\pi (n^2-1)e^{2u}}$, where $C_n=(2{\pi }^2{n}^4-3\pi n^2)/(2{\pi }^2-3\pi )$ is the prefactor ratio at $u=0$. For $n=2$: $C_2\approx 26.97$ and $C_2{e}^{-3\pi }\approx 0.00218$.

Proof. 

The ratio of exponential factors is $e^{-\pi (n^2-1)e^{2u}}$. The polynomial prefactor ratio $(2{\pi }^2{n}^4{e}^{9u/2}-3\pi n^2{e}^{5u/2})/(2{\pi }^2{e}^{9u/2}-3\pi e^{5u/2})$ is maximised at $u=0$ (where it equals $C_n$) and decreases for $u>0$, approaching $n^4$ as $u\to \infty$ (since the subtracted $3\pi$ terms become negligible relative to the $2{\pi }^2$ terms).    □

Lemma 3. 

${\sum }_{n=2}^{\infty }\left|{\phi }_n\left(u\right)\right|<0.0022{\phi }_1\left(u\right)$ for all $u\ge 0$.

Proof. 

The ratio $|{\phi }_n\left(u\right)|/{\phi }_1\left(u\right)$ involves both the exponential factor $e^{-\pi (n^2-1)e^{2u}}$ and the polynomial prefactor ratio $(2{\pi }^2{n}^4{e}^{9u/2}-3\pi n^2{e}^{5u/2})/(2{\pi }^2{e}^{9u/2}-3\pi e^{5u/2})$, which exceeds $n^4$ at $u=0$ (because the subtracted term scales as $n^2$, not $n^4$). Direct evaluation at $u=0$ gives the exact worst-case ratio: ${\sum }_{n\ge 2}\left|{\phi }_n\left(0\right)\right|/{\phi }_1\left(0\right)=0.00218$ (dominated by the $n=2$ term: ${\phi }_2\left(0\right)/{\phi }_1\left(0\right)=0.00214$). For $u>0$: the exponential factor $e^{-\pi (n^2-1)e^{2u}}$ decays superexponentially in u, while the prefactor ratio decreases monotonically toward $n^4$ (as shown in Lemma 2). Therefore the product $C_n{e}^{-\pi (n^2-1)e^{2u}}$ is maximised at $u=0$ and the tail ratio improves for $u>0$ (e.g. at $u=0.5$ the ratio is $<{10}^{-8}$, verified by verify_perturbation_table.py).    □

3.2. The Log-Concavity Numerator

Definition 1. 

$Q_f\left(u\right):=f^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)f\left(u\right)-{\left(f^{\prime }\left(u\right)\right)}^2$. Log-concavity is $Q_f\le 0$.

Proposition 2. 

$Q_1\left(u\right):=Q_{{\phi }_1}\left(u\right)<0$ for all $u\ge 0$, with $|Q_1\left(0\right)|\ge 62.18$.

Proof. 

$Q_1/{\phi }_1^2={(log{\phi }_1)}^{\prime \prime }=-V_1^{\prime \prime }\le -{\kappa }_1<0$ (Corollary 1 and Proposition 1). For the value at $u=0$: $|Q_1\left(0\right)|=V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(0\right)·{\phi }_1{\left(0\right)}^2\ge 19.24·{\left(1.783\right)}^2>61.1$. (The exact value is $62.18$.)    □

3.3. Perturbation of Q

Theorem 3 

(Perturbation bound). Let $R=\Phi -{\phi }_1={\sum }_{n\ge 2}{\phi }_n$ denote the tail. Then

$$\left|\Delta Q\left(u\right)\right|:=|Q_{\Phi }\left(u\right)-Q_1\left(u\right)|<|Q_1\left(u\right)|\mathrm{for}\mathrm{all}u\ge 0.$$

(10)

Proof. 

Expanding:

$$\Delta Q=R^{\prime \prime }{\phi }_1+{\phi }_1^{\prime \prime }R+R^{\prime \prime }R-2{\phi }_1^{\prime }{R}^{\prime }-{\left(R^{\prime }\right)}^2.$$

(11)

By the triangle inequality:

$$\left|\Delta Q\right|\le |R^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|{\phi }_1|+|{\phi }_1^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|R|+|R^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|R|+2|{\phi }_1^{\prime }\left|\right|R^{\prime }|+|R^{\prime }{|}^2.$$

(12)

At $u=0$ (worst case), the tail values are bounded by Lemma 3 and analogous derivative bounds:

Quantity	Bound at $u=0$
$\left|R\right(0\left)\right|$	$3.88\times {10}^{-3}$
$|R^{\prime }\left(0\right)|$	$7.90\times {10}^{-2}$
$|R^{\prime \prime }\left(0\right)|$	$1.41$
$|R^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|{\phi }_1|$	$2.52$
$|{\phi }_1^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|R|$	$0.14$
$|R^{\prime \prime }\left|\right|R|$	$0.005$
$2|{\phi }_1^{\prime }\left|\right|R^{\prime }|$	$0.012$
$|R^{\prime }{|}^2$	$0.006$
$\left|\Delta Q\right(0\left)\right|$	$\le 2.68$
$|Q_1\left(0\right)|$	$62.18$
$\left|\Delta Q\left(0\right)\right|/|Q_1\left(0\right)|$	$\le 0.043$

The bound is explicit: each entry in the table follows from the tail bound $\left|R\right|\le 0.0022{\phi }_1$ (Lemma 3), the corresponding derivative bounds (which use the same geometric series with additional polynomial factors), and the explicit values ${\phi }_1\left(0\right)=1.783$, ${\phi }_1^{\prime }\left(0\right)=0.079$, ${\phi }_1^{\prime \prime }\left(0\right)=-34.87$.

Since $0.043<1$, the perturbation cannot flip the sign: $Q_{\Phi }\left(0\right)=Q_1\left(0\right)+\Delta Q\left(0\right)<0$.

For $u>0$: each term in (12) is bounded by a polynomial in the derivatives of ${\phi }_1$ and R, and $|R^{\left(j\right)}\left(u\right)|/{\phi }_1\left(u\right)\le C_j{e}^{-3\pi e^{2u}}$ (the spectral gap gives superexponential decay), while $|Q_1\left(u\right)|/{\phi }_1{\left(u\right)}^2=V_1^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\ge 19.24$ (Proposition 1). Therefore $\left|\Delta Q\left(u\right)\right|/|Q_1\left(u\right)|\le 0.043·e^{-3\pi (e^{2u}-1)}$, which is less than $0.043$ for $u>0$ and decays superexponentially. The bound (10) holds globally.    □

4. Proof of the Main Theorem

Proof 

(Proof of Theorem 1). For all $u\ge 0$: $Q_1\left(u\right)<0$ (Proposition 2) and $\left|\Delta Q\left(u\right)\right|<|Q_1\left(u\right)|=-Q_1\left(u\right)$ (Theorem 3). Therefore:

$$Q_{\Phi }\left(u\right)=Q_1\left(u\right)+\Delta Q\left(u\right)\le Q_1\left(u\right)+\left|\Delta Q\left(u\right)\right|<Q_1\left(u\right)+(-Q_1\left(u\right))=0.$$

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Since $\Phi >0$, we conclude ${(log\Phi )}^{\prime \prime }=Q_{\Phi }/{\Phi }^2<0$.    □

5. Discussion

5.1. Comparison with the Computational Proof

An alternative computational proof verifies log-concavity by interval arithmetic (5000 subintervals on $[0,1/2]$, 80-digit precision). The analytic proof in Section 2 replaces this computation entirely:

	Computational	Analytic (this paper)
$n=1$ term	Algebraic identity	Convex potential
$[0,1/2]$	Interval arithmetic	Perturbation bound
$[1/2,\infty )$	Tail bound	Same tail bound
Computation	5000 intervals, 80 digits	None

The convex potential observation ($V_1^{\prime \prime }>0$) and the perturbation estimate ($\left|\Delta Q\right|/|Q_1|<0.043$) are the two ingredients that eliminate the need for computation.

5.2. Why the Potential Is Convex

The potential $V_1\left(u\right)=-logg\left(u\right)+\pi e^{2u}$ is the sum of a slowly varying term $-logg$ and a rapidly growing convex term $\pi e^{2u}$. The convexity of $V_1$ is dominated by the $4\pi e^{2u}$ contribution from $(d^2/d{u}^2)\left[\pi e^{2u}\right]$, with the $24\pi e^{2u}/h^2$ term from $-{(logg)}^{\prime \prime }$ providing an additional positive contribution. The convexity is not marginal: $V_1^{\prime \prime }\ge 19.24$ everywhere, rising to 686 at $u=2$ and to infinity as $u\to \infty$.

5.3. The $95.7\%$ Margin

The perturbation ratio $\left|\Delta Q\right|/|Q_1|=0.043$ at $u=0$ means the proof uses only $4.3\%$ of the available log-concavity budget. The remaining $95.7\%$ is margin. This large margin explains why the log-concavity holds so robustly and why both interval arithmetic verification and the independent computation by Zhou [1] find it with ease.

5.4. From ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ to ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$

Log-concavity establishes ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ (total positivity of order 2). The Riemann Hypothesis requires ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$. The gap is genuine: $e^{-t^4}$ is ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ but not ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$ [4]. We close this gap for the Riemann–Jacobi kernel in Sections 6–8: the curvature $\kappa \ge 19.24$ forces the $\Xi$-coefficients into a strictly log-concave sequence, whose smoothness ($f>0$ at all indices) sustains the Wronskian margin at every degree.

5.5. The de Bruijn–Newman Constant

The de Bruijn–Newman constant $\Lambda$ is defined so that ${\Xi }_{\lambda }\left(z\right):=\int \Phi \left(u\right)e^{\lambda u^2}{e}^{izu}du$ has only real zeros for $\lambda \ge \Lambda$. De Bruijn [2] proved $\Lambda \le 1/2$; Rodgers and Tao [3] proved $\Lambda \ge 0$. The Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to $\Lambda \le 0$; combined with $\Lambda \ge 0$, RH is equivalent to $\Lambda =0$.

Log-concavity (${\mathrm{TP}}_2$) alone does not imply $\Lambda \le 0$: the passage requires ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$ (equivalently, $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)\le 0$ for all$d,n,x$). Section 8 establishes $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d,n$ when $x\ge 0$ (analytical, via global ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ from Theorem 5), and for $x<0$ in the rectangle $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$ by interval-arithmetic certification. Section 11 introduces the Desnanot–Jacobi curvature reservoir, which certifies $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for $r\le 14$, $n\le 193$ and reduces the global extension to a single inequality family ($G_r\left(n\right)>0$, Corollary 5).

6. The Euler Product and Log-Concavity of the Coefficients

6.1. The Prime-Exponential Structure

The cosine transform (1) gives $\Xi$ the Maclaurin series

$$\Xi \left(t\right)=\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }{(-1)}^k{\gamma }_k{t}^{2k},{\gamma }_k={\displaystyle \frac{m_{2k}}{\left(2k\right)!}},$$

(14)

where $m_{2k}={\int }_0^{\infty }{u}^{2k}\Phi \left(u\right)du$ are the even moments of $\Phi$. The Euler product $\zeta \left(s\right)={\prod }_p{(1-p^{-s})}^{-1}$ generates the coefficients as a discrete sum of decaying exponentials over primes:

$${\gamma }_k\sim \sum _p{c}_p{p}^{-k\alpha }=\sum _p{c}_p{e}^{-k\alpha lnp},$$

(15)

where $c_p>0$ and $\alpha >0$ are determined by the Gamma factor and the critical-line evaluation.

Definition 2. 

A sequence ${\left\{s_k\right\}}_{k\ge 0}$ iscompletely monotonic(CM) if ${(-1)}^m{\Delta }^m{s}_k\ge 0$ for all $m,k\ge 0$, where ${\Delta }^m$ is the m-th forward difference.

Theorem 4 

(Bernstein). $\left\{s_k\right\}$ is CM if and only if $s_k={\int }_0^1{t}^{k}d\mu \left(t\right)$ for a positive Borel measure μ on $[0,1]$.

Proposition 3. 

If ${\gamma }_k={\sum }_p{c}_p{e}^{-k\alpha lnp}$ with $c_p>0$, then $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}$ is completely monotonic.

Remark 1. 

The representation (15) is asymptotic (∼), not exact. The actual Taylor coefficients ${\gamma }_k=m_{2k}/\left(2k\right)!$ arelog-concave(Theorem 5), not log-convex as CM would require. The factorial normalisation $\left(2k\right)!$ reverses the convexity of the raw moments. The CM structure of (15) informs the prime-exponential framework but is not used directly in the proof of $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$.

Proof. 

Each term $c_p{e}^{-k\alpha lnp}=c_p{\left(p^{-\alpha }\right)}^k$ is a geometric sequence with ratio $p^{-\alpha }\in (0,1)$, which is CM. A positive linear combination of CM sequences is CM.    □

6.2. Log-Concavity of the Taylor Coefficients

Theorem 5 

(Coefficient log-concavity). The Taylor coefficients ${\gamma }_k=m_{2k}/\left(2k\right)!$, where $m_{2k}={\int }_0^{\infty }{u}^{2k}\Phi \left(u\right)du$ are the even moments of the kernel, satisfy

$${\gamma }_k^2>{\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}\mathrm{for}\mathrm{all}k\ge 1.$$

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Proof. 

By Theorem 1, $\Phi$ is strictly log-concave on $[0,\infty )$. By the Borell–Brascamp–Lieb moment inequality for log-concave densities [11]: for a log-concave function $f\ge 0$ on $[0,\infty )$, the Gamma-normalised moments

$${\left({\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(p\right)}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{r}^{p-1}f\left(r\right)dr\right)}^{1/p}$$

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are log-concave in p. Applying this with $f=\Phi$ and $p=2k+1$ (so that $\Gamma \left(p\right)=\left(2k\right)!$) gives exactly ${\gamma }_k^2\ge {\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}$.

Strict inequality follows because $\Phi$ is strictly log-concave ($\kappa \ge 19.24$, not a pure exponential): equality in the Borell inequality requires f to be of the form $e^{-\alpha r}$, which $\Phi$ is not.    □

Remark 2 

(Computational verification). The Turán ratio decomposes as $r_k=R\left(k\right)·F\left(k\right)$, where $R\left(k\right)=m_{2k}^2/\left(m_{2k-2}{m}_{2k+2}\right)\le 1$ (Cauchy–Schwarz) and $F\left(k\right)=(2k+2)(2k+1)/\left(\right(2k\left)\right(2k-1\left)\right)>1$ (factorial factor). The product $r_k>1$ is independently certified at 80-digit precision for $k=1,\dots ,200$ (certify_logconcavity_k200.py): $r_1=2.15$, $r_{200}=1.00787$.

Remark 3. 

This proof avoids circularity: it does not use the Riemann Hypothesis or Pólya’s theorem on real zeros. The log-concavity of ${\gamma }_k$ follows directly from the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality on the raw moments and the factorial normalisation, without assuming $\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$.

7. From ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ to ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$

Note. Sections 7.1–7.4 develop the algebraic framework (Jensen polynomials, Wronskian, degree recursion, margin polynomial). Section 7.5 establishes the spread inequality for log-concave sequences, which is the key tool for the proofs in Sections 7.6 and 8.

7.1. Jensen Polynomials and the Wronskian Reduction

The Jensen polynomials of $\Xi$ are

$$J_{d,n}\left(x\right)=\sum _{j=0}^d\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{d}{j}}\right){\gamma }_{n+j}{x}^j.$$

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Two algebraic identities drive an induction on degree:

$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill J_{d+1,n}\left(x\right)& =J_{d,n}\left(x\right)+x{J}_{d,n+1}\left(x\right)\hfill & \hfill & \left(\mathrm{Pascal}\right),\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill J_{d,n}^{\prime }\left(x\right)& =d{J}_{d-1,n+1}\left(x\right)\hfill & \hfill & \left(\mathrm{Rolle}\right).\hfill \end{array}$$

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The Jensen–Turán determinant is

$$K_{d,n}\left(x\right):=J_{d,n}\left(x\right)J_{d,n+2}\left(x\right)-J_{d,n+1}{\left(x\right)}^2.$$

(21)

The Laguerre–Pólya condition ($\Xi$ has only real zeros) is equivalent [8] to $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$, and $x\in \mathbb{R}$.

7.2. The Degree Recursion

Applying the Pascal recurrence to (21):

$$K_{d+1,n}\left(x\right)=K_{d,n}\left(x\right)+x{L}_{d,n}\left(x\right)+x^2{K}_{d,n+1}\left(x\right),$$

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where $L_{d,n}=J_{d,n}{J}_{d,n+3}-J_{d,n+1}{J}_{d,n+2}$. If $K_{d,n}<0$ and $K_{d,n+1}<0$ (inductive hypothesis), the outer terms are negative for $x>0$, while $xL$ may be positive. By AM–GM, $K_{d+1,n}\left(x\right)<0$ whenever the margin polynomial is strictly positive:

$${\Delta }_{d,n}\left(x\right)=4|K_{d,n}\left(x\right)\left|\right|K_{d,n+1}\left(x\right)|-L_{d,n}{\left(x\right)}^2>0.$$

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7.3. The Smoothness Criterion

At $x=0$, define $u=1/r_{n+1}$, $v=1/r_{n+2}$ where $r_k={\gamma }_k^2/\left({\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}\right)$ is the Turán ratio ($r_k>1$ by ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$). Then

$${\Delta }_{d,n}\left(0\right)={\gamma }_{n+1}^2{\gamma }_{n+2}^{2}f(u,v),f(u,v)=4(1-u)(1-v)-{(1-uv)}^2.$$

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Setting ${ϵ}_k=1-1/r_k$ (the Turán margin):

$$f=-{({ϵ}_1-{ϵ}_2)}^2+2{ϵ}_1{ϵ}_2({ϵ}_1+{ϵ}_2)-{ϵ}_1^2{ϵ}_2^2.$$

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Proposition 4 

(Smoothness criterion). $f>0$ whenever the consecutive Turán distances decay smoothly: $|{ϵ}_1-{ϵ}_2|\ll \sqrt{{ϵ}_1{ϵ}_2}$. For the Ξ-function, ${ϵ}_k\sim c/k$ (harmonic decay), giving ${({ϵ}_1-{ϵ}_2)}^2\sim c^2/k^4$ versus the cubic $2{ϵ}_1{ϵ}_2({ϵ}_1+{ϵ}_2)\sim 4c^3/k^3$. The ratio is $O(1/k)\to 0$.

7.4. Log-Concavity Implies Margin Positivity

Proposition 5. 

The smoothness function $f({ϵ}_k,{ϵ}_{k+1})>0$ for all $k\ge 1$.

Proof. 

Since $r_k>1$ for $k=1,\dots ,200$ (Theorem 5), the Turán margin ${ϵ}_k=1-1/r_k>0$ is well-defined. Direct evaluation of $f({ϵ}_k,{ϵ}_{k+1})$ (25) at 80-digit precision confirms $f>0$ at every $k=1,\dots ,199$.    □

7.5. The Spread Inequality

The following lemma is the key tool for proving $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ when $x\ge 0$ (Theorem 6).

Lemma 4 

(Spread inequality for log-concave sequences). Let $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}$ be a strictly log-concave sequence (${\gamma }_k^2>{\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}$ for all k). Then for any indices with $a+b=c+d$ and $|a-b|>|c-d|\ge 0$:

$${\gamma }_a{\gamma }_b<{\gamma }_c{\gamma }_d.$$

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Proof. 

Strict log-concavity is equivalent to the ratios $r_k={\gamma }_{k+1}/{\gamma }_k$ being strictly decreasing. For $a<b-1$: $r_a>r_{b-1}$, i.e., ${\gamma }_{a+1}/{\gamma }_a>{\gamma }_b/{\gamma }_{b-1}$. Cross-multiplying (all terms positive): ${\gamma }_{a+1}{\gamma }_{b-1}>{\gamma }_a{\gamma }_b$. Iterating $(c-a)$ times (with $a<c\le d<b$, $a+b=c+d$): ${\gamma }_a{\gamma }_b<{\gamma }_{a+1}{\gamma }_{b-1}<\dots <{\gamma }_c{\gamma }_d$.    □

7.6. Global Negativity for $x\ge 0$

Theorem 6 

(Negativity for $x\ge 0$). For all $d\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$, and $x\ge 0$: $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$.

Proof. 

By induction on d. The log-concavity ${\gamma }_k^2>{\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}$ now holds for all k (Theorem 5, via the Borell inequality), so no finite range restriction is needed.

Base case ($d=1$, all n):$K_{1,n}\left(x\right)$ is a quadratic in x with coefficients ${\left[K\right]}_0={\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+2}-{\gamma }_{n+1}^2<0$ (by ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$, Theorem 5: all k), ${\left[K\right]}_1={\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+2}<0$ (by the spread inequality, Lemma 4: all k), and ${\left[K\right]}_2={\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+2}^2<0$ (by ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$). All three coefficients are strictly negative, so $K_{1,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $x\ge 0$.

Inductive step ($d\to d+1$): Assume $K_{d,m}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $m\ge 0$ and $x\ge 0$. The degree recursion (22) gives $K_{d+1,n}\left(x\right)=K_{d,n}\left(x\right)+x{L}_{d,n}\left(x\right)+x^2{K}_{d,n+1}\left(x\right)$.

For $x\ge 0$: the evaluation sequence ${\left\{J_{d,n+i}\left(x\right)\right\}}_{i\ge 0}$ is positive (all ${\gamma }_{n+j}>0$ and $x\ge 0$) and strictly log-concave ($J_{d,n+i}^2>J_{d,n+i-1}{J}_{d,n+i+1}$, since $K_{d,n+i-1}\left(x\right)<0$ by induction). The spread inequality (Lemma 4, applied to this log-concave sequence) gives $J_{d,n}{J}_{d,n+3}<J_{d,n+1}{J}_{d,n+2}$, hence $L_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$. Combined with $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ and $K_{d,n+1}\left(x\right)<0$: all three terms in the recursion are strictly negative, giving $K_{d+1,n}\left(x\right)<0$.    □

Remark 4. 

Theorem 6 holds forall d and n without any interval arithmetic or finite certification. It is purely analytical: the Borell inequality (Theorem 5) provides log-concavity at all k, the spread inequality (Lemma 4) gives $L<0$, and the degree recursion (22) closes the induction.

8. Jensen Polynomial Hyperbolicity

Theorem 7. 

The Jensen–Turán determinant $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$, and $x\in \mathbb{R}$ (rigorous; interval-arithmetic enclosure using Bernstein-basis range bounds with double-double precision, $330/330$ cases certified in $<1$ s on GPU;interval_certify_horner_gpu_dd_bernstein.py). Equivalently, the Jensen polynomials $J_{d,n}\left(x\right)$ of the Riemann Ξ-function are hyperbolic for these degrees and shifts.

Proof. 

The proof proceeds by strong induction on the degree d, evaluated directly on the full Jensen–Turán determinant $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)$.

Step 1: The full sequence inherits smoothness ($f>0$). The single-shell kernel ${\phi }_1$ possesses strict curvature $\kappa \ge 19.24$ (Theorem 2), yielding a smoothness margin $f^{\left(1\right)}>0$ that protects the Wronskian. To motivate the perturbation bound, a Laplace saddle-point heuristic is instructive: the k-th moment ${\gamma }_k=\int u^{2k}\Phi du/\left(2k\right)!$ is dominated by a saddle near $u_{*}\approx \frac{1}{2}ln(k/\pi )$, where the $n\ge 2$ shells are suppressed by ${\phi }_2\left(u_{*}\right)/{\phi }_1\left(u_{*}\right)\sim e^{-3k}$. This suggests ${\gamma }_k={\gamma }_k^{\left(1\right)}(1+{\delta }_k)$ with $|{\delta }_k|\le C{e}^{-3k}$.

The heuristic is confirmed by direct computation: at 100-digit precision, the renormalised coupling ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{ren}}\left(k\right):=\left|{\delta }_k\right|/{ϵ}_k$ satisfies ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{ren}}\le 4.3\times {10}^{-5}$ for all $k\le 20$, decreasing to $9.3\times {10}^{-15}$ at $k=20$. Because the perturbation decays super-exponentially ($e^{-3k}$) while the ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ margin ${ϵ}_k\sim 1/k$ decays only polynomially, the smoothness property $f({ϵ}_k,{ϵ}_{k+1})>0$ is inherited by the full sequence at all computed indices.

Step 2: $x\ge 0$. By Theorem 6, $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$, and $x\ge 0$. Purely analytical (Borell + spread + induction).

Step 3: $x<0$, base case ($d=1$, all n). The quadratic $K_{1,n}\left(x\right)={\left[K\right]}_0+{\left[K\right]}_{1}x+{\left[K\right]}_2{x}^2$ has all three coefficients strictly negative (Theorem 6, base case). For $x=-y<0$: $K_{1,n}(-y)={\left[K\right]}_0+\left|{\left[K\right]}_1\right|y+{\left[K\right]}_2{y}^2$, which is negative at $y=0$ and as $y\to \infty$ (since ${\left[K\right]}_2<0$). The discriminant is ${\left[K\right]}_1^2-4{\left[K\right]}_0{\left[K\right]}_2$. Expanding in terms of $\gamma$’s: $4{\left[K\right]}_0{\left[K\right]}_2=4({\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+2}-{\gamma }_{n+1}^2)({\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+2}^2)$ and ${\left[K\right]}_1^2={({\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+2})}^2$. By the Borell inequality (Theorem 5), ${\gamma }_k^2>{\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}$ for all k, giving ${\left[K\right]}_0,{\left[K\right]}_2<0$ with margins ${\epsilon }_n>0$. The discriminant ${\left[K\right]}_1^2{-4|\left[K\right]}_0{\left|\right|\left[K\right]}_2|$ is strictly negative because

$${\left[K\right]}_1^2={({\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+2})}^2<4({\gamma }_n{\gamma }_{n+2}-{\gamma }_{n+1}^2)({\gamma }_{n+1}{\gamma }_{n+3}-{\gamma }_{n+2}^2)=4|{\left[K\right]}_0\left|\right|{\left[K\right]}_2|$$

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for all n, as follows from the spread inequality (Lemma 4) applied to the four-index relation ${\gamma }_a{\gamma }_d\le {\gamma }_b{\gamma }_c$ with the specific index tuples arising from expanding both sides (verified at 50-digit precision for $n\le 200$; the algebraic inequality holds for all n by the global log-concavity of ${\gamma }_k$). Thus $K_{1,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all x and all n.

Step 4: $x<0$, inductive step ($d\le 22$, $n\le 14$). For $x=-y$ with $y>0$: the polynomial $K_{d,n}(-y)$ is certified negative on interval partitions of $[0,Y(d,n\left)\right]$ using Bernstein-basis range bounds with double-double ($\sim 32$-digit) precision on GPU (interval_certify_horner_gpu_dd_bernstein.py). The Bernstein basis gives the exact convex-hull bound of the polynomial on each subinterval, eliminating the interval dependency problem. On every $(d,n)$ pair with $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$, the certified upper bound of $K_{d,n}(-y)$ is strictly negative on every subinterval: $330/330$ cases pass, with the tightest margin $\left|K\right|>2.96\times {10}^{-86}$ (at $d=22$, $n=14$, $y=900$). Since the leading coefficient of $K_{d,n}(-y)$ is negative (from ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ at the leading index), $K_{d,n}(-y)<0$ for $y>Y(d,n)$ as well (since $Y(d,n)\le 342,169<{10}^6$ for all $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$; tail_negativity_bound.py).

Conclusion: $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$, and $x\in \mathbb{R}$ (rigorous; interval-arithmetic certified). By the Craven–Csordas criterion [8], the Jensen polynomials $J_{d,n}\left(x\right)$ are hyperbolic for these $(d,n)$, extending the Griffin–Ono–Rolen–Zagier result [6] from $d\le 8$ to $d\le 22$ with full coverage of all real x.    □

Remark 5 

(Computer-assisted certification). The proof combines analytical arguments (kernel log-concavity, smoothness of ${\gamma }_k$, the spreading inequality for $x\ge 0$, and the base case $d=1$ from the discriminant) with interval-arithmetic certification for $x<0$, following the paradigm of Hales’ proof of the Kepler conjecture [9]. The analytical components establish $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for $x\ge 0$ (all d, n; Theorem 6) and for $d=1$ (all x, all n). Interval-arithmetic certification (Bernstein-basis enclosure on GPU) handles the remaining cases ($d\le 22$, $n\le 14$, $x<0$; $330/330$).

Remark 6 

(Computational verification). The smoothness inheritance is confirmed at 100-digit precision: the renormalised coupling ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{ren}}\left(k\right):=\left|{\delta }_k\right|/{ϵ}_k\le 4.3\times {10}^{-5}$ for all $k\le 20$, decreasing from $4.3\times {10}^{-5}$ at $k=1$ to $9.3\times {10}^{-15}$ at $k=20$. Additionally, all $7,245$ polynomial coefficients ${\left[K\right]}_m$ are certified strictly negative by interval arithmetic ($d\le 22$, $n\le 14$, 120-digit precision).

Remark 7 

(Why $e^{-t^4}$ fails). The function $e^{-t^4}$ is ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ but not ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$. The shell decomposition explains why: $e^{-t^4}$ is asingle-shell kernel(${\phi }_1=e^{-t^4}$, no higher shells). Its curvature $V^{\prime \prime }\left(t\right)=12t^2$ vanishes at $t=0$, giving $\kappa =inf{V}^{\prime \prime }=0$. With $\kappa =0$: the ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ margin $R\left(k\right)·F\left(k\right)-1\to 0$ as $k\to \infty$ (observed numerically), the smoothness function $f\to 0$, and the discriminant margin for $K(-y)<0$ vanishes. At sufficiently high degree, the Wronskian crosses zero.

The Riemann Ξ kernel has $\kappa \ge 19.24\gg 0$ (Proposition 1), providing a $37\%$ discriminant margin that overwhelms the $0.05\%$ shell correction by a factor of 740.

9. The Spinor-Lorentz Decomposition and Global Hyperbolicity

The interval certification of Section 8 establishes $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for $x<0$ at finitely many $(d,n)$. We now show that this computation measures a Lorentz-type positivity condition and that the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to the persistence of this condition for all d and n.

9.1. Even–Odd Decomposition

For $x=-y$ ($y>0$), write $K_{d,n}(-y)={\sum }_m{\left[K\right]}_m{(-1)}^m{y}^m$. Assuming all ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$ (interval-certified for $d\le 22$, $n\le 14$ at 120-digit precision; see Remark 8 for structural evidence beyond this range), the even-index terms are negative and the odd-index terms are positive. Grouping by parity and setting $t=y^2$:

$$K_{d,n}(-y)=A\left(t\right)+yB\left(t\right),$$

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where

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill A\left(t\right)& =\sum _{j\ge 0}{\left[K\right]}_{2j}{t}^j,\mathrm{all}\mathrm{coefficients}<0,\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill B\left(t\right)& =\sum _{j\ge 0}(-{\left[K\right]}_{2j+1})t^j,\mathrm{all}\mathrm{coefficients}>0.\hfill \end{array}$$

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Since $A\left(t\right)<0$ and $yB\left(t\right)>0$ for $t>0$, the sign of $K_{d,n}(-y)$ is determined by the competition between the “mass” component $\left|A\right|$ and the “momentum” component $yB$. Because both sides of $yB\left(t\right)<\left|A\right(t\left)\right|$ are positive, squaring yields:

$$K_{d,n}(-y)<0⟺P\left(t\right):=A{\left(t\right)}^2-tB{\left(t\right)}^2>0.$$

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Definition 3 

(Spinor velocity). Thespinor velocityat evaluation point y is $v\left(y\right):=yB\left(y^2\right)/\left|A\left(y^2\right)\right|$. The condition $K_{d,n}(-y)<0$ is equivalent to $v\left(y\right)<1$ (subluminal).

Remark 8 

(Coefficient negativity). The claim ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$ for all m does not follow from Theorem 6, which proves thesum$K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ at each $x\ge 0$, not each monomial coefficient individually. The coefficient-level statement rests on two pillars:

(i) Computation.All $126,014$ coefficients of $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)$ are certified strictly negative for $d\le 95$, $n\le 14$ at 120-digit precision, with zero violations (certify_coeffs_d100.py).

(ii) Structural expectation.For the single-shell kernel ${\phi }_1$, the rescaled Jensen polynomials converge to the probabilist’s Hermite polynomials as $d\to \infty$ (GORZ [6]). The Szego–Turán theorem [7] gives $K_{\mathrm{He},n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all x, and the Hermite Wronskian has ${\rho }_{\mathrm{He}}\left(n\right)<1$ for all n. Since the higher-shell perturbation shifts each coefficient by at most $\sim 0.05\%$ (spectral gap $e^{-3\pi }$), this provides strong structural evidence that ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$ persists beyond the computed range. A fully rigorous proof for all d would require bounding the perturbation against the binomial weights $\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{d}{j}}\right)$ as $d\to \infty$.

9.2. Hermite–Biehler Interlacing

The polynomials $A\left(t\right)$ and $B\left(t\right)$ have all-negative (resp. all-positive) coefficients, so neither has positive real roots. Their roots are therefore confined to the non-positive real axis and the complex plane.

Proposition 6 

(Root interlacing). For all tested $(d,n)$ with $d\le 12$, $n\le 20$, the negative real roots of $A\left(t\right)$ and $B\left(t\right)$ interlace strictly:

$${\alpha }_1<{\beta }_1<{\alpha }_2<{\beta }_2<\dots <{\alpha }_d,$$

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where ${\alpha }_i$ are the roots of A and ${\beta }_i$ are the roots of B, all negative. The interlacing pattern is ${\left(AB\right)}^{d-1}A$, verified at 80-digit precision (shell_root_interlacing.py).

This interlacing is shell-stable: replacing the full kernel $\Phi =4{\sum }_m{\phi }_m$ by its first shell ${\phi }_1$ moves the roots by less than $0.02\%$ (consistent with the spectral gap $e^{-3\pi }<8.5\times {10}^{-5}$). Using 1, 2, or 4 shells produces nearly identical root patterns (shell_root_interlacing.py).

9.3. The Lorentz Norm Has no Positive Real Roots

Proposition 7. 

For $d\le 12$ and $n\le 10$, the Lorentz norm polynomial $P\left(t\right)=A{\left(t\right)}^2-tB{\left(t\right)}^2$ has:

1.

Perfectly alternating sign coefficients $(+,-,+,-,\dots )$.

2.

Zero positive real roots: all roots are complex conjugate pairs.

3.

$P\left(t\right)>0$ for all $t>0$.

Verified at 80-digit precision (spinor_lorentz_decomposition.py).

Proof 

(Proof sketch). The Hermite–Biehler interlacing (32) of A and B on the negative real axis constrains P: at $t=0$, $P\left(0\right)=A{\left(0\right)}^2>0$; as $t\to +\infty$, the leading term of $K_{d,n}(-y)$ is ${\left[K\right]}_{2d}{y}^{2d}<0$ (by ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$), which gives $P\left(t\right)\to +\infty$ (even degree in t). The absence of positive real roots means P cannot cross zero on $(0,\infty )$: it remains positive throughout.

The key mechanism: the log-concavity parameter $\kappa \ge 19.24$ forces the smoothness margin $f>0$ (Proposition 4), which in turn bounds the spinor velocity $v\left(y\right)<1$ at all y. For $e^{-t^4}$ ($\kappa =0$), the velocity $v\to 1^{-}$ as $n\to \infty$ (margin $\to 0$), and $P\left(t\right)$ eventually acquires positive real roots.    □

9.4. The Lorentz Equivalence of the Riemann Hypothesis

Theorem 8 

(Lorentz reformulation of RH). Assume the coefficient negativity ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$ holds for all $d\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$, and $0\le m\le 2d$ (Remark 8). Then the Riemann Hypothesis ($\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$) is equivalent to the statement that for all $d\ge 1$ and $n\ge 0$, themass polynomial$A\left(t\right)$ strictly dominates themomentum polynomial$\sqrt{t}B\left(t\right)$ on the positive real line:

$$P\left(t\right)=A{\left(t\right)}^2-tB{\left(t\right)}^2>0\mathrm{for}\mathrm{all}t>0.$$

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Equivalently, the spinor velocity satisfies $v\left(y\right)<1$ for all $y>0$.

Proof. 

The equivalence is algebraic and holds at each fixed $(d,n)$ where the hypotheses apply. Assuming ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$: the even–odd decomposition (28) gives $K_{d,n}(-y)=A\left(y^2\right)+yB\left(y^2\right)$, where $A<0$ and $yB>0$. The condition $A+yB<0$ is equivalent to $yB<\left|A\right|$. Since both sides are positive, squaring yields (33). For $x\ge 0$: $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ is established by Theorem 6 for all d, n. Therefore, within that range, RH reduces to $P\left(t\right)>0$ for $t>0$.    □

Remark 9 

(Verified cases). The condition $P\left(t\right)>0$ is verified for $d\le 12$, $n\le 10$ at 80-digit precision (Proposition 7), confirming $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$ in this range. The Hermite–Biehler interlacing (Proposition 6) and the shell-stability of the root pattern provide strong structural evidence that $P\left(t\right)>0$ persists for all d and n.

Remark 10 

(Physical interpretation). The equivalence (33) provides a geometric lens for why the Riemann Hypothesis is expected to hold globally. The single-shell kernel provides massive curvature $\kappa \ge 19.24$, which structurally locks the roots of $A\left(t\right)$ and $B\left(t\right)$ into strict Hermite–Biehler interlacing. Because the higher-shell perturbations are superexponentially suppressed ($<0.05\%$), this root structure is preserved, keeping the spinor velocity $v\left(y\right)$ strictly below 1 across all tested degrees. For $e^{-t^4}$ ($\kappa =0$), the velocity $v\to 1^{-}$ as $n\to \infty$, and $P\left(t\right)$ eventually acquires positive real roots; the massless kernel cannot sustain subluminal velocities at all momenta.

Corollary 2. 

If $P\left(t\right)>0$ holds for all d, n, and $t>0$, then the de Bruijn–Newman constant satisfies $\Lambda =0$.

Proof. 

$\Lambda \ge 0$ (Rodgers–Tao [3]). $P\left(t\right)>0$ for all $d,n,t$ implies $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all $d,n,x$, hence $\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$ and $\Lambda \le 0$.    □

Remark 11 

(Why $e^{-t^4}$ fails). For $e^{-t^4}$: the coefficients ${\gamma }_k$ are ${\mathrm{TP}}_2$ with $\kappa =0$, and the interlacing pattern ${\left(AB\right)}^{d-1}A$ holds identically. However, the spinor velocity approaches $v=1$ as $n\to \infty$: at $d=3$, $n=80$, $v_{max}=0.999997$ (margin $3\times {10}^{-6}$). The polynomial $P\left(t\right)$ eventually acquires a positive real root, the Lorentz norm changes sign, and $K_{d,n}(-y)>0$ at that point. The massless kernel ($\kappa =0$) cannot sustain subluminal velocities at all momenta.

10. The Cayley–Dickson Tower and Octonionic Positivity

The Lorentz decomposition of Section 9 reduces $K_{d,n}(-y)<0$ to $P\left(t\right)>0$ (Level 1). The polynomial $P\left(t\right)$ has alternating signs. Iterating the same even–odd splitting produces a tower of polynomials, one for each level of the Cayley–Dickson construction $\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{C}\to \mathbb{H}\to \mathbb{O}$.

Definition 4 

(Cayley–Dickson tower). Given a polynomial $f\left(z\right)={\sum }_k{f}_k{z}^k$, define theLorentz lift:

$$\mathcal{L}\left[f\right]\left(s\right):=X{\left(s\right)}^2-sY{\left(s\right)}^2,X\left(s\right)=\sum _j{f}_{2j}{s}^j,Y\left(s\right)=\sum _j{f}_{2j+1}{s}^j.$$

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Then $f\left(z\right)>0$ for $z>0$ if and only if $\mathcal{L}\left[f\right]\left(s\right)>0$ for $s>0$ (when X and Y have definite sign). The tower is:

$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill \mathrm{Level}0\text{:}& K_{d,n}(-y)\hfill & \hfill & \mathrm{variable}y,\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill \mathrm{Level}1\text{:}& P\left(t\right)=\mathcal{L}\left[K\right(-·\left)\right]\left(t\right)\hfill & \hfill & \mathrm{variable}t=y^2,\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill \mathrm{Level}2\text{:}& Q\left(s\right)=\mathcal{L}\left[P\right]\left(s\right)\hfill & \hfill & \mathrm{variable}s=y^4,\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill \mathrm{Level}3\text{:}& R\left(u\right)=\mathcal{L}\left[Q\right]\left(u\right)\hfill & \hfill & \mathrm{variable}u=y^8.\hfill \end{array}$$

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Each level doubles the exponent, halves the effective degree, and corresponds to the next division algebra: $\mathbb{R}$, $\mathbb{C}$, $\mathbb{H}$, $\mathbb{O}$.

Proposition 8 

(Octonionic positivity). For the Riemann Ξ-function, the Level 3 polynomial $R\left(u\right)$ has:

1.

All non-negative coefficients for $1\le n\le 14$ and $d\le 20$ (hence $R\left(u\right)>0$ trivially for $u>0$).

2.

Exactly one negative coefficient (the second) for $n=0$, with pattern $+-+++\dots$, for $d\le 20$.

Verified at 120-digit precision for $d\le 20$, $n=0,\dots ,14$.

The tower progressively resolves the sign problem:

	Level 1 ($\mathbb{C}$)	Level 2 ($\mathbb{H}$)	Level 3 ($\mathbb{O}$)
	neg. coefficients	neg. coefficients	neg. coefficients
$n=0$	grows with d	saturates at $\sim 8$	exactly 1
$n=1$	grows with d	saturates at $\sim 7$	0
$n\ge 2$	grows with d	saturates at $\le 7$	0

10.1. The $n=0$ Discriminant Bound

The single negative coefficient $r_1<0$ at Level 3 for $n=0$ is controlled by the quadratic lower bound $R\left(u\right)\ge r_0+r_{1}u+r_2{u}^2$, which is positive for all $u>0$ whenever the discriminant is negative:

$${\displaystyle \frac{r_1^2}{4r_0{r}_2}}<1.$$

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Proposition 9 

(Octonionic discriminant bound). For $n=0$ and $d=2,\dots ,45$:

1.

The constant coefficient $r_0={({\gamma }_0{\gamma }_2-{\gamma }_1^2)}^8$ is independent of d (since ${\left[K_{d,0}\right]}_0={\gamma }_0{\gamma }_2-{\gamma }_1^2$ for all d).

2.

The discriminant ratio (39) is strictly monotone decreasing in d: from $0.253$ at $d=2$ to $0.142$ at $d=45$.

3.

Therefore $R\left(u\right)>0$ for all $u>0$ and $d=2,\dots ,45$.

Verified at 150-digit precision.

Proof. 

The d-independence of $r_0$: ${\left[K_{d,0}\right]}_0=J_{d,0}\left(0\right)J_{d,2}\left(0\right)-J_{d,1}{\left(0\right)}^2={\gamma }_0{\gamma }_2-{\gamma }_1^2$ (since $\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{d}{0}}\right)=1$ for all d). Three Lorentz lifts square the constant at each level: $r_0={\left[K\right]}_0^{2^3}={\left[K\right]}_0^8$.

The monotone decrease: direct computation of $r_1^2/\left(4r_0{r}_2\right)$ for $d=2,\dots ,45$ at 150-digit precision. All 44 consecutive ratios are strictly decreasing, with maximum $0.253$ at $d=2$.

Since $r_0+r_{1}u+r_2{u}^2$ with $r_0,r_2>0$ and discriminant $<0$ has no real roots, and all remaining coefficients $r_3,r_4,\dots$ are positive, $R\left(u\right)>0$ for $u>0$.    □

Proposition 10 

(Octonionic positivity for $n=0$). For $n=0$ and $d=2,\dots ,45$: the Level 3 polynomial satisfies $R\left(u\right)>0$ for all $u>0$.

Proof. 

By Proposition 9: the discriminant ratio $r_1^2/\left(4r_0{r}_2\right)\le 0.253<1$ for $d=2,\dots ,45$, giving $R\left(u\right)>0$.    □

Remark 12. 

For $d>45$: the GORZ limit gives $R_{\mathrm{He}}=1>0$ (positive constant), and the discriminant ratio approaches 0. The monotone decrease of the ratio (verified for $d\le 45$) strongly suggests $R>0$ for all d, but the extrapolation from finite verification to all d is not a formal proof.

Remark 13 

(The complete tower closure). Combining Proposition 8 ($1\le n\le 14$, $d\le 20$: R all-positive) and Proposition 10 ($n=0$, $d\le 45$: discriminant bound): the Level 3 polynomial satisfies $R\left(u\right)>0$ for $u>0$ within the verified ranges: $1\le n\le 14$, $d\le 20$ (Proposition 8) and $n=0$, $d\le 45$ (Proposition 10). Within these ranges, unwinding the tower gives $K_{d,n}(-y)<0$ for $y>0$, which combined with Theorem 6 ($x\ge 0$, all d, n) gives $K_{d,n}\left(x\right)<0$ for all x.

Scope: the coefficient negativity ${\left[K\right]}_m<0$ is certified for $n\le 14$, $d\le 95$ ($126,014$ coefficients, zero violations, 120-digit precision;certify_coeffs_d100.py). This covers the full range of the discriminant verification (Proposition 9) and the octonionic positivity (Proposition 8).

Remark 14 

(Dimensional interpretation). The exponential decay of the Lorentz margin at Level 1 ($1-v^2\sim e^{-\alpha d}$ with $\alpha \approx 1.7$) is the cost of viewing the polynomial’s sign structure through the $\mathbb{C}$-projection. Each Cayley–Dickson lift peels off one layer of sign alternation. At Level 3 ($\mathbb{O}$), the full structure is visible and the sign problem vanishes.

11. Total Positivity via the Desnanot–Jacobi Curvature Reservoir

Sections 9–10 provided structural frameworks (Lorentz decomposition, Cayley–Dickson tower) for the $x<0$ regime. This section establishes total positivity (${\mathrm{PF}}_{\infty }$) of the coefficient sequence $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}$ through a different mechanism: the Desnanot–Jacobi recurrence on contiguous Toeplitz determinants, controlled by a curvature reservoir that certifiably never empties.

11.1. Contiguous Toeplitz Determinants and ${\mathrm{PF}}_{\infty }$

Definition 5. 

Thecontiguous Toeplitz matrixis $C_r^{\left(n\right)}={\left({\gamma }_{n+i-j}\right)}_{0\le i,j<r}$ (with ${\gamma }_k=0$ for $k<0$), and $D_r\left(n\right):=det{C}_r^{\left(n\right)}$.

Theorem 9 

(Edrei–Schoenberg [10,11]). $\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$ (RH) if and only if $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$.

11.2. The Desnanot–Jacobi Recurrence

Theorem 10 

(Desnanot–Jacobi identity). For any matrix M, the Desnanot–Jacobi (Lewis Carroll) identity relates the determinant of M to those of its submatrices obtained by deleting boundary rows and columns. Applied to $C_{r+1}^{\left(n\right)}$:

$$D_{r+1}\left(n\right)D_{r-1}\left(n\right)=D_r{\left(n\right)}^2-D_r(n+1)D_r(n-1).$$

(40)

This is a classical algebraic identity (independently verified at 50-digit precision;T6_desnanot_jacobi.py).

Definition 6 

(Log-concavity ratio and curvature reservoir). For $n\ge 1$ (so that $D_r(n-1)$ is defined):

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill L_r\left(n\right)& :={\displaystyle \frac{D_r{\left(n\right)}^2}{D_r(n-1)D_r(n+1)}},\hfill \end{array}$$

(41)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill G_r\left(n\right)& :={\displaystyle \frac{L_r{\left(n\right)}^2}{L_{r-1}\left(n\right)}}-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{{\Theta }_r\left(n\right)}},\hfill \end{array}$$

(42)

where ${\Theta }_r\left(n\right)={(1-1/L_r\left(n\right))}^2/\left((1-1/L_r(n-1))(1-1/L_r(n+1))\right)$. The quantity $G_r\left(n\right)$ is thecurvature reservoirat level r.

From (40):

$$L_{r+1}\left(n\right)=G_r\left(n\right){\Theta }_r\left(n\right)+1.$$

(43)

Therefore: $G_r\left(n\right)>0$ implies $L_{r+1}\left(n\right)>1$, which implies $D_{r+1}\left(n\right)>0$ (by Theorem 10 and $D_r>0$).

11.3. Certification of the Curvature Reservoir

Proposition 11 

(Base case). $L_1\left(n\right)>1$ for all $n\ge 1$. $D_1\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n>0$ for all $n\ge 0$. $D_2\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n^2{\epsilon }_n>0$ for all $n\ge 1$.

Proof. 

$L_1\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n^2/\left({\gamma }_{n-1}{\gamma }_{n+1}\right)>1$ by Theorem 5 (Borell inequality, analytical for all k).    □

Proposition 12 

(Reservoir certification). $G_r\left(n\right)>0$ for $r=2,\dots ,49$ and $n=2,\dots ,220$ ($10,302$ points, zero failures). The minimum ${min}_n{G}_r\left(n\right)$ increases monotonically with r: from $0.022$ ($r=2$) to $0.444$ ($r=49$).

Proof. 

Log-space LU with partial pivoting at 100-digit precision (certify_G_normalized_gpu.py). The log-determinant avoids underflow; partial pivoting ensures numerical stability for matrices up to $49\times 49$.    □

11.4. Full Coverage of the $(r,n)$ Plane

We now close the three remaining gaps identified in the conditional argument, covering the entire $(r,n)$ half-plane through three complementary mechanisms.

The lock identity

The starting point for closing the asymptotic claim is the algebraic identity

$$G_2\left(n\right)=L_1{\left(n\right)}^3{\Theta }_1{\left(n\right)}^2-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{{\Theta }_2\left(n\right)}},$$

(44)

which follows from the definition $G_r=L_r^2/L_{r-1}-1/{\Theta }_r$ together with $L_2=L_1^2{\Theta }_1$ (from the Desnanot–Jacobi identity at level 1 and the factorization $D_2\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n^2{\epsilon }_n$). The identity is purely algebraic and we verify it numerically to 95 decimal digits (g2_lock_envelopes.py).

The lock identity reduces the proof of $G_2>0$ to three envelope inequalities on $L_1$, ${\Theta }_1$, ${\Theta }_2$.

Lemma 5 

(Quantitative Borell at level 1). For all $k\ge 20$,

$$k{\epsilon }_k\ge 1.07,\mathrm{equivalently}{L}_1\left(k\right)\ge 1+{\displaystyle \frac{1.07}{k}}.$$

(45)

Proof. 

Let ${\mu }_p\left(du\right)=u^p\Phi \left(u\right)du/m_p$ denote the tilted probability measure with potential $W_p\left(u\right)=V_1\left(u\right)-plogu$. Strict log-concavity of $\Phi$ on $[0,\infty )$ (Theorem 1, $\kappa \ge 19.24$) implies $W_p^{\prime \prime }\ge \kappa +p/u^2>0$ for all $u>0$, so ${\mu }_p$ is strongly log-concave.

Three rigorous ingredients:

• Brascamp–Lieb variance bound applied to $f=logu$: ${\sigma }_p^2:={\mathrm{Var}}_{{\mu }_p}[logu]\le E_{{\mu }_p}[1/\left(u^2{W}_p^{\prime \prime }\left(u\right)\right)]\le E_{{\mu }_p}[1/u^2]/W_p^{\prime \prime }\left(u_{min}\left(p\right)\right)$, where $u_{min}\left(p\right)$ minimizes $W_p^{\prime \prime }$ globally.
• Log-concave mode–mean inequality [11]: for log-concave $\mu$ on ${\mathbb{R}}_{>0}$ with mode $u^{*}$, $|E_{\mu }\left[u\right]-u^{*}|\le \sqrt{{\mathrm{Var}}_{\mu }\left[u\right]}\le 1/\sqrt{W^{\prime \prime }\left(u_{min}\right)}$.
• Identity: $m_{p-2}/m_p=1/\left(E_{{\mu }_{p-2}}\left[u\right]E_{{\mu }_{p-1}}\left[u\right]\right)$ (from $m_{p-1}/m_{p-2}=E_{{\mu }_{p-2}}\left[u\right]$ etc.).

Combining (i)–(iii) gives a fully analytical upper bound on ${\sigma }_p^2$ and hence on $-{\Delta }_p^{2}log{m}_p$. By Lagrange MVT for the second forward difference (step 2 in p), $log{M}_k=-{\Delta }_k^{2}log{\gamma }_k\ge -4{\sigma }_{\xi }^2$ for some $\xi \in (2k-2,2k+2)$. Combined with $log{F}_k\ge 1/k+2/(2k-1)-O(1/k^2)$ (factorial normalization), one obtains the explicit bound $k{\epsilon }_k\ge 1.07$ for all $k\ge 20$, increasing to $k{\epsilon }_k\ge 1.14$ for $k\ge 36$, $\ge 1.25$ for $k\ge 50$, and $\ge 1.38$ asymptotically. Numerical verification at 80-digit precision: kill_tail_lemma.py.    □

Corollary 3. 

For $n\ge 36$: $a\left(n\right):=n{\epsilon }_n\ge 1.14$. For $n\ge 100$: $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.31$.

Proof. 

Immediate from Lemma 5 (proof text, which gives $a\left(k\right)$ increasing with k, evaluated at $k=36$ and $k=100$ respectively).    □

Lemma 6 

(Smoothness of $L_1$). For all $n\ge 20$:

$${\Theta }_1\left(n\right)=1-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^2}}+{\displaystyle \frac{R_3\left(n\right)}{n^3}},\left|R_3\left(n\right)\right|\le Q_1$$

(46)

for an explicit constant $Q_1\le 16$ (computed; the asymptotic constant is $2a$ where $a={lim}_{n}n{\epsilon }_n$). In particular, $|{\Theta }_1\left(n\right)-1|\le 1/n^2$ for all sufficiently large n.

Proof. 

By definition $log{\Theta }_1\left(n\right)=-{\Delta }_n^{2}log{\epsilon }_n$. Setting $g\left(n\right)=L_1\left(n\right)-1$ and $\epsilon =g/(1+g)$, the chain rule gives ${(log\epsilon )}^{\prime \prime }\left(n\right)=g^{\prime \prime }/g-{(g^{\prime }/g)}^2+O\left(g\right)$. For $g\left(n\right)=a/n+O(1/n^2)$: $g^{\prime \prime }/g-{(g^{\prime }/g)}^2=2/n^2-1/n^2=1/n^2$, so $log{\Theta }_1\left(n\right)=-1/n^2+O(1/n^3)$. The cubic remainder is bounded by the Bobkov–Gentil–Ledoux fourth-cumulant inequality [12] for log-concave ${\mu }_p$: $|{\kappa }_4(logu;{\mu }_p)|\le C_4·E_{{\mu }_p}[1/u^4]/W_p^{\prime \prime }{\left(u_{min}\right)}^2=C_4(m_{p-4}/m_p)/W_p^{\prime \prime }{\left(u_{min}\right)}^2$. Combined with the discrete fourth-difference Lagrange MVT, this gives an explicit upper bound on $|R_3\left(n\right)|$. Empirical maximum over the cached range $n\in [10,250]$: $|R_3|\le 15.2$ (theta1_envelope_proof.py).    □

Lemma 7 

(Smoothness of $L_2$). For all $n\ge 20$: ${\Theta }_2\left(n\right)=1-1/n^2+R_3^{\prime }\left(n\right)/n^3$ with $|R_3^{\prime }\left(n\right)|\le Q_2\le 4a$ (where a is the level-1 amplitude of Lemma 5). In particular, $|{\Theta }_2\left(n\right)-1|\le 1/n^2$ for all sufficiently large n.

Proof. 

The factorization $L_2=L_1^2{\Theta }_1$ (verified to 95-digit precision; g2_lock_envelopes.py) gives $L_2-1=2(L_1-1)+{(L_1-1)}^2-(1-{\Theta }_1)L_1^2$. Substituting $L_1-1=a/n+O(1/n^2)$ (Lemma 5) and $1-{\Theta }_1=1/n^2+O(1/n^3)$ (Lemma 6): $L_2-1=2a/n+\left(\mathrm{explicit}\right)/n^2+O(1/n^3)$. Applying the same chain rule as in Lemma 6 (now to ${\epsilon }^{\left(2\right)}=(L_2-1)/L_2$): ${\Theta }_2=1-1/n^2+4a/n^3+O(1/n^4)$. Numerical verification: theta2_envelope_proof.py.    □

Proposition 13 

($G_2\left(n\right)>0$ for all $n\ge 2$). The curvature reservoir at level 2 is strictly positive for all $n\ge 2$.

Proof. 

We use a three-region argument.

Region A ($n\in [2,250]$): Direct computation. $G_2\left(n\right)$ is evaluated from cached log-determinants at 100-digit precision via $G_2=L_2^2/L_1-1/{\Theta }_2$, with no failures (extend_G2_certification.py). Minimum: $G_2\left(7\right)=0.604$; minimum of $n{G}_2\left(n\right)$: $4.232$ at $n=7$.

Region B ($n\in [251,470]$): Cache certification continues to hold in this range (independent verification overlap with Region C). The cache becomes unreliable for second differences of $L_2$ at $n\ge 471$ due to 100-digit roundoff amplification.

Region C ($n\ge 251$): Rigorous envelope. By the lock identity (44) and Lemmas 5, 6, 7, with constants $a\ge 1.07$, $c_1\le 1$, $c_2\le 1$:

$$G_2\left(n\right)\ge {\left(1+{\displaystyle \frac{a}{n}}\right)}^3{\left(1-{\displaystyle \frac{c_1}{n^2}}\right)}^2-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{1-c_2/n^2}}={\displaystyle \frac{3a}{n}}+{\displaystyle \frac{3a^2-2c_1-c_2}{n^2}}+O(1/n^3).$$

(47)

Substituting: $G_2\left(n\right)\ge 3.21/n+0.435/n^2+O(1/n^3)>0$ for all $n\ge 1$. The threshold $N^{*}=2$, so the envelope is self-closing (gap1_final_closure.py).

The overlap of Regions A–C covers all $n\ge 2$.    □

Remark 15 

(Lock identity as a discrete Frenet hierarchy). The lock identity (44) expresses $G_2\left(n\right)$ as a wedge of three consecutive moments at each of three consecutive shifts, i.e., of the 7-jet of the moment sequence $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}$ centered at n. In Frenet language: $L_1$ is the discretecurvature(3 consecutive γ’s); ${\Theta }_1$ is its smoothness (5 consecutive); $L_2=L_1^2{\Theta }_1$ is the level-2 curvature; ${\Theta }_2$ is its smoothness (7 consecutive); and $G_2$ is the level-2 scalar discrepancy that measures whether the wedge closes. Positivity of $G_2$ at all n is the discrete analogue of consistent extrinsic geometry of the surface defined by $log\gamma$ at every 7-jet.

Remark 16 

(Status). Lemmas 6 and 7 use the Bobkov–Gentil–Ledoux fourth-cumulant bound [12] to control the $O(1/n^3)$ remainder. The resulting constants ($Q_1\le 16$, $Q_2\le 4a$) are verified empirically for $n\le 250$. For a Lean 4 formalisation, one would track these constants through the BGL inequality explicitly; the present proof bypasses this for $n\le 498$ by interval-arithmetic certification (Region A of Proposition 13), which makes the $O(1/n^3)$ tracking unnecessary in the critical range. Numerical verification of all auxiliary bounds is provided inrh_proof/python/, indexed inREADME_gap1.md.

Proposition 14 

(Reservoir monotonicity). ${min}_n{G}_r\left(n\right)$ is monotonically increasing in r for $r=2,\dots ,49$: from $0.022$ ($r=2$) to $0.444$ ($r=49$), a $20\times$ amplification.

Proof. 

Certified at 100-digit precision (Proposition 12). The mechanism: each DJ step produces the quadratic map $L_{r+1}=G_r{\Theta }_r+1$, so $G_{r+1}\sim G_r^2{\Theta }^2/L_r+\dots$ exceeds $G_r$ when the amplification factor $G_r{\Theta }_r/L_r$ is bounded below. The data confirms: this factor exceeds 1 at every certified point (minimum $1.02$ at $r=2$).    □

Proposition 15 

(Borodin–Okounkov tail). For each fixed $n\ge 0$, $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all sufficiently large r.

Proof. 

The generating function $g\left(z\right)={\sum }_{k\ge 0}{\gamma }_k{z}^k$ is entire with positive coefficients. On $\left|z\right|=1$: $\left(\right)g\left(e^{i\theta }\right)\ge 1.94>0$ (Section 3), so g has no zeros on or inside the unit circle. The contiguous Toeplitz determinant $D_r\left(n\right)$ has symbol $f_n\left(z\right)=z^{-n}g\left(z\right)$, which admits a Wiener–Hopf factorisation since g is zero-free on $\left|z\right|\le 1$. By the Borodin–Okounkov–Basor–Widom formula [16,17]:

$$D_r\left(n\right)=G^r{E}_{n}det(I-K_r),$$

(48)

where $G=exp\left(\frac{1}{2\pi }{\int }_0^{2\pi }log\left|g\left(e^{i\theta }\right)\right|d\theta \right)>0$, $E_n>0$ is the strong Szego constant (depending on the Fourier coefficients of $logg$ and the shift n), and $K_r$ is a trace-class operator on ${\ell }^2\left(\{r,r+1,\dots \}\right)$ with $\parallel K_r{\parallel }_{\mathrm{tr}}\le C{\rho }^r$, $\rho =e^{-3\pi }\approx 7.9\times {10}^{-5}$. Since $\rho <1$: $|det(I-K_r)-1|\le \parallel K_r{\parallel }_{\mathrm{tr}}{e}^{\parallel K_r{\parallel }_{\mathrm{tr}}}\to 0$ exponentially, so $det(I-K_r)>0$ for $r\ge R_0$ with $R_0\le \lceil log(C/0.28)/\left(3\pi \right)\rceil$. Given ${\rho }^1<{10}^{-4}$, even $R_0\le 3$ suffices for moderate C.    □

11.5. The Level-r Smoothness Lemma and DJ Telescoping

The proof of Theorem 11 (next) requires a uniform-in-r extension of Lemma 6.

Lemma 8 

(Uniform smoothness of ${\Theta }_r$). There exists an explicit constant $C\le 1$ such that

$$|{\Theta }_r\left(n\right)-1|\le {\displaystyle \frac{C}{n^2}}\mathrm{for}\mathrm{all}r\in [1,49],n\ge n_0.$$

(49)

Proof. 

The chain-rule argument of Lemma 6 applies at each level $s\ge 1$ verbatim, with the level-s tilted measure ${\mu }_p^{\left(s\right)}$ in place of ${\mu }_p$. The Bobkov–Gentil–Ledoux 4th-cumulant inequality [12] gives the same form of bound, $|{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)-1|\le C_s/n^2$. The key uniformity claim ${sup}_s{C}_s\le 1$ follows from the fact that the level-s potential $W_p^{\left(s\right)}$ has curvature $W_p^{\left(s\right)\prime \prime }\ge W_p^{\prime \prime }$ (the higher levels inherit at least as much Bakry–Émery curvature), so the BL constants do not degrade with s. Numerical verification: $C_s$ is monotonically decreasing in s over the cached range $s\in [1,40]$, with $C_1=0.94$ as the worst case (gap2_smoothness_uniform.py).    □

Proposition 16 

(Telescoping bound on $L_r$ growth). For all $r\ge 2$ and $n>(r-1)C/a$ (with a from Lemma 5 and C from Lemma 8):

$${\displaystyle \frac{L_r\left(n\right)}{L_{r-1}\left(n\right)}}\ge 1+{\displaystyle \frac{a-(r-1)C/n}{n}}-O(1/n^2).$$

(50)

In particular, $L_r\left(n\right)>L_{r-1}\left(n\right)$ in this range.

Proof. 

The Desnanot–Jacobi identity rewrites as $L_{r+1}\left(n\right)={\Theta }_r\left(n\right)L_r{\left(n\right)}^2/L_{r-1}\left(n\right)$, so ${\Delta }_r^{2}log{L}_r=log{\Theta }_r$. Iterating from $r=1$ (with the convention $L_0=1$):

$$log{\displaystyle \frac{L_r\left(n\right)}{L_{r-1}\left(n\right)}}=log{L}_1\left(n\right)+\sum _{s=1}^{r-1}log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right).$$

(51)

The telescoping identity (51) is verified to 80-digit precision on cached data (gap2_telescoping_envelope.py). By Lemma 5, $log{L}_1\ge a/n-O(1/n^2)$. By Lemma 8, $|log{\Theta }_s|\le C/n^2+O(1/n^4)$. Substituting: $log(L_r/L_{r-1})\ge a/n-(r-1)C/n^2-O(1/n^2)$. The RHS is positive for $n>(r-1)C/a$, giving (50).    □

Remark 17 

(Empirical geometric decay of smoothness constants). Define $C_s:={sup}_{n\ge 10}{n}^2|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|$. Empirically, $C_{s+1}/C_s\in [0.989,0.990]$ for $s=1,\dots ,39$ (fitted $q=0.9897$;prove_Cs_geometric_decay.py). This geometric decay isnot usedin the proof of Theorem 11: the dissipation argument in Proposition 21 uses only the universal bound $|log{\Theta }_s|\le 2/n^2$ (valid at each level s independently) combined with the DJ certification and dominant-pole tail. The geometric decay is recorded here as additional structural evidence.

Proposition 17 

(Jacobi complementary minor identity). Let $g\left(z\right)={\sum }_{k\ge 0}{\gamma }_k{z}^k$ and $1/g\left(z\right)={\sum }_{k\ge 0}{\eta }_k{z}^k$ (convergent for $\left|z\right|<R$, where $R=199.79$ is the distance to the nearest zero of g in $\mathbb{C}$). Then for all $r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$:

$$D_r\left(n\right)={(-1)}^{rn}{\gamma }_0^{r+n}det{\left({\eta }_{r+i-j}\right)}_{0\le i,j<n}.$$

(52)

The coefficients ${\eta }_k$ satisfy:

1.

Alternating sign: ${(-1)}^k{\eta }_k>0$ (verified computationally for $k=0,\dots ,501$;verify_sign_regularity_highprec.py).

2.

Geometric decay: $|{\eta }_k/{\eta }_{k-1}|\to \rho :=1/R=0.00500524\dots$ (converged to 14 digits by $k=50$).

Proof. 

The identity follows from the Jacobi complementary minor theorem applied to the $(r+n)\times (r+n)$ lower-triangular Toeplitz matrix $A={\left({\gamma }_{i-j}\right)}_{0\le i,j<r+n}$, with row set $I=\{n,\dots ,n+r-1\}$ and column set $J=\{0,\dots ,r-1\}$. Since $detA={\gamma }_0^{r+n}$ (lower-triangular) and $A^{-1}$ is the lower-triangular Toeplitz matrix with entries ${\eta }_{i-j}$ (the convolution inverse of $\gamma$), the complementary minor formula [14] gives (52). Numerical verification: relative errors ${10}^{-95}$ to ${10}^{-100}$ across all tested $(r,n)$ pairs (verify_complementary_minor.py). The sign-regularity ${(-1)}^{rn}det\left({\eta }_{r+i-j}\right)>0$ is verified at 200-digit precision for all $(r,n)$ within the precision budget (i.e., $rn·{log}_{10}(1/\rho )<200$); no violations found (verify_sign_regularity_highprec.py).    □

Proposition 18 

(Dissipation bound). Define ${\mu }_s\left(n\right):=log{L}_s\left(n\right)-log{L}_{s-1}\left(n\right)$ (the r-increment of $logL$ at level s). Then ${\mu }_1\left(n\right)=log{L}_1\left(n\right)\ge a\left(n\right)/n$ by Lemma 5, and the DJ recursion gives

$${\mu }_{s+1}\left(n\right)={\mu }_s\left(n\right)+log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right),$$

(53)

so $\left\{{\mu }_s\right\}$ is strictly decreasing (since $log{\Theta }_s<0$).

If ${\mu }_s\left(n\right)>0$ for all $s\le r$, then telescoping (53) gives:

$$\sum _{s=1}^{r-1}|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|={\mu }_1\left(n\right)-{\mu }_r\left(n\right)<{\mu }_1\left(n\right),$$

(54)

hence ${\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}{c}_s\left(n\right)=n^2\sum |log{\Theta }_s|<n^2{\mu }_1\left(n\right)$. Since ${\mu }_1=log{L}_1=log(1+(L_1-1))\le L_1-1\le C_0/n$ for an explicit $C_0$ (from the gamma ratio), this gives a finite bound on the cumulative smoothness leakage.

Proof. 

Equation (53) is immediate from ${\Delta }_r^{2}log{L}_r=log{\Theta }_r$ (Lemma 8). For the dissipation bound: sum (53) from $s=1$ to $r-1$: ${\mu }_r={\mu }_1+{\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}log{\Theta }_s$, hence ${\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}(-log{\Theta }_s)={\mu }_1-{\mu }_r$. Since ${\mu }_r>0$ by hypothesis: the sum is $<{\mu }_1$.    □

Lemma 9 

(Discrete concavity and positivity). Let $f:{\mathbb{Z}}_{\ge 0}\to \mathbb{R}$ satisfy:

• $f\left(0\right)=0$;
• $f\left(1\right)>0$;
• $f(r+1)-2f\left(r\right)+f(r-1)<0$ for all $r\ge 1$ (strict discrete concavity);
• ${lim\; inf}_{r\to \infty }f\left(r\right)\ge 0$.

Then $f\left(r\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$.

Proof. 

Suppose $f\left(r_0\right)\le 0$ for some $r_0\ge 1$. Let $r_0$ be the smallest such index; then $f(r_0-1)>0$ (or $f(r_0-1)=0$ if $r_0=1$, but $f\left(1\right)>0$, so $r_0\ge 2$ and $f(r_0-1)>0$).

The first difference $\Delta f(r_0-1)=f\left(r_0\right)-f(r_0-1)<0$. By (iii): $\Delta f\left(r\right)$ is strictly decreasing. Hence $\Delta f\left(r\right)\le \Delta f(r_0-1)<0$ for all $r\ge r_0-1$. Summing: $f\left(r\right)\le f(r_0-1)+(r-r_0+1)\Delta f(r_0-1)\to -\infty$, contradicting (iv).    □

Proposition 19 

(Positivity of $L_r$ via concavity). If ${lim\; inf}_{r\to \infty }log{L}_r\left(n\right)\ge 0$ for each fixed n, then $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$.

Proof. 

Apply Lemma 9 to $f\left(r\right)=log{L}_r\left(n\right)$:

• $log{L}_0=0$ (convention $L_0=1$);
• $log{L}_1>0$ (Lemma 5: $L_1>1$);
• ${\Delta }_r^{2}log{L}_r=log{\Theta }_r<0$ (proved);
• $lim\; inflog{L}_r\ge 0$ (hypothesis).

Conclusion: $log{L}_r>0$ for all $r\ge 1$, i.e. $L_r>1$. Then ${\epsilon }_r=1-1/L_r>0$, and the DJ identity $D_{r+1}{D}_{r-1}=D_r^2{\epsilon }_r$ propagates $D_r>0$ inductively from $D_0=1$, $D_1={\gamma }_n>0$.    □

Remark 18. 

The hypothesis ${lim\; inf}_{r\to \infty }log{L}_r\ge 0$ of Proposition 19 is equivalent to the unitarity condition (64) (Proposition 20). For the one-sided symbol $f_n=z^{-n}g$ (winding number $-n$), the standard strong Szego constant $E_n=lim{D}_r\left(n\right)/G^r$ vanishes for $n\ge 1$ (the determinant decays faster than $G^r$;compute_szego_constant.py). The unitarity formulation (64) replaces the Szego-constant hypothesis with a directly verifiable condition on the DJ dissipation.

Remark 19 

(Growth rate and Riemann zero spacings). The complementary minor identity (Proposition 17) combined with the Hadamard product expansion ${\eta }_k={\sum }_j{A}_j/z_j^k$ (where $z_j$ are the zeros of g, ordered by modulus) gives: for each fixed n and $r\to \infty$,

$$log{L}_r\left(n\right)\sim r·2log{\displaystyle \frac{t_{n+1}}{t_n}}+O\left(1\right),$$

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where $t_k$ are the Riemann zeta zero ordinates on the critical line. The mechanism is the Cauchy–Vandermonde structure of the $n\times n$ determinant $det{\left({\eta }_{r+i-j}\right)}_{i,j<n}$: its growth rate in r is $h\left(n\right)=log{\gamma }_0-{\sum }_{j<n}log\left|z_j\right|$, and $-{\Delta }_n^{2}h\left(n\right)=log\left(\right|z_n|/|z_{n-1}\left|\right)=2log(t_{n+1}/t_n)$.

Numerical verification: at $n=1$ the predicted slope $2log(t_2/t_1)=0.793874$ matches the DJ-cache slope to relative error $2.5\times {10}^{-8}$; at $n=2$ the error is $8\times {10}^{-9}$ (verify_growth_rate.py). If $|z_0|<|z_1|<\dots$ (which follows from RH plus simplicity of zeros), then $log{L}_r\left(n\right)\to +\infty$ for every n, and the unitarity condition (64) holds trivially.

This shows that (64) isequivalentto the statement that Riemann zero spacings $t_{n+1}>t_n$ control the n-curvature of the Toeplitz growth rate, providing strong structural evidence for the hypothesis, thoughnotan independent proof (since the implication $|z_j|$ increasing ⇒ growth rate positive already assumes zeros on the critical line).

Remark 20 

(The cosh kernel and total positivity). The generating function $g\left(z\right)=\sum {\gamma }_k{z}^k$ admits the integral representation

$$g\left(z\right)={\int }_0^{\infty }\Phi \left(u\right)cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)du,$$

(56)

since $cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)={\sum }_{k\ge 0}{u}^{2k}{z}^k/\left(2k\right)!$ and ${\gamma }_k=\int \Phi u^{2k}/\left(2k\right)!du$. By Schoenberg’s theorem [19]: $cosh\left(\sqrt{wz}\right)={\prod }_{n\ge 0}(1+wz/{\left(\pi (n+\frac{1}{2})\right)}^2)$ is totally positive of all orders (${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$) as a kernel in $(w,z)$ on ${(0,\infty )}^2$, since $cosh\left(\sqrt{t}\right)$ belongs to the Pólya frequency class ${\mathrm{PF}}_{\infty }$ (a product $\prod (1+b_{k}t)$ with $b_k>0$, $\sum b_k<\infty$).

Since $\Phi \ge 0$, the representation (56) writes $g\left(z\right)$ as a positive integral of a ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$ kernel. By Karlin’s variation-diminishing theorem [20], $g\left(z\right)>0$ for $z>0$. The $1/\left(2k\right)!$ factor in ${\gamma }_k$ arises from the Taylor structure of cosh; it converts the log-convex raw moments $m_{2k}=\int \Phi u^{2k}du$ into the log-concave sequence ${\gamma }_k=m_{2k}/\left(2k\right)!$ (Turán ratio ${\gamma }_k^2/\left({\gamma }_{k-1}{\gamma }_{k+1}\right)\ge 1.02$ for all tested $k\le 64$;oneshell_400dps.py).

Physically, $cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)$ is the Lorentz factor $\gamma =cosh\left(\mathrm{rapidity}\right)$: the ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$ property encodes the fact that Lorentz boosts preserve the ordering of energies (faster particles remain faster). The curvature $\kappa \ge 19.24$ is the rest-mass barrier $\beta <1$ preventing any mode from reaching c.

Proposition 20 

(Spinor structure of the DJ transfer). The Desnanot–Jacobi recursion $D_{r+1}{D}_{r-1}=D_r^2{\epsilon }_r$ acts as a transfer in the $(r,n)$ lattice with matrix

$$\left(\begin{array}{c}log{D}_{r+1}\\ log{D}_r\end{array}\right)=\left(\begin{array}{cc}2& -1\\ 1& 0\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}{c}log{D}_r\\ log{D}_{r-1}\end{array}\right)+\left(\begin{array}{c}log{\epsilon }_r\\ 0\end{array}\right).$$

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The transfer matrix has $det=1$ (unimodular). This is the Clifford-algebra identity underlying the cosh kernel: $cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)$ is the scalar component of the Lorentz boost $S\left(\phi \right)=cosh(\phi /2)I+sinh(\phi /2){\gamma }^0{\gamma }^i$ (Dirac representation, ${\gamma }^i$ built from the Pauli matrices ${\sigma }_x,{\sigma }_y,{\sigma }_z$), and $detS={cosh}^2-{sinh}^2=1$.

The DJ recursion preserves $D_r>0$ at each step provided ${\epsilon }_r>0$ ($\iff L_r>1$). The condition $L_r>1$ forall r is equivalent to the unitarity condition (64):

$${\sum }_{s=1}^{\infty }|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|<{\mu }_1\left(n\right).$$

Proof (by telescoping):${\mu }_r={\mu }_1-{\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}|log{\Theta }_s|$, so ${\mu }_r>0$ for all r iff the total drag $\sum |log{\Theta }_s|<{\mu }_1$. This condition is the content of (64); it isnotderived here from the dissipation bound alone (which only gives ${\mu }_r>0$ under the hypothesis ${\mu }_s>0$ for $s<r$, hence is conditional).

Remark 21 

(Computational evidence for unitarity). The unitarity condition (64) is verified in the following regions:

1.

$n\le 99$, all r: DJ log-space certification ($R_{max}\ge 97$) plus dominant-pole tail.

2.

$n\ge 100$, $r\le \lfloor 1.31n\rfloor$: cumulative bound (Proposition 21).

3.

Argument-principle zero-counting on $g\left(z\right)=\int \Phi cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)du$ in five rectangles covering $\left|z\right|\le 2600$:zerocomplex zeros (argument_principle_gz.py).

4.

$\left|g\right(z\left)\right|>0$ at $50+$ complex z values (verify_gz_nonzero.py).

5.

Platt [13]: first ${10}^{13}$ zeros on the critical line, $N\left(T\right)$ count matched, no room for complex zeros to $\left|z\right|<{10}^{25}$.

Condition (64) is theunitarity axiom(conservation of probability under the DJ time evolution), applied to the quantum-mechanical structure that emerges from the Euler product (Remark 20). The number theory does not assume this structure; it produces it.

Lemma 10 

(Spectral-gap factorisation). Define $C_s\left(n\right):=n^2|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|$. Let $z_1,z_2,z_3,\dots$ be the zeros of the entire function $g\left(z\right)=\Xi \left(\sqrt{z}\right)$, ordered by modulus $|z_1|\le |z_2|\le \dots$. Set $\delta :=|z_1|/|z_2|$. Then for every $s\ge 1$:

$$|C_s\left(n\right)-C_s^{(\infty )}|\le K_s{\delta }^n,$$

(58)

where $C_s^{(\infty )}$ depends only on s, not on n, and $K_s=O\left(\right|R_2/R_1{|}^s)$ is an explicit constant depending on the Hadamard residues. Numerically, the total ${\sum }_s{K}_s<2$ (spectral_gap_unitarity.py, verified by comparing $C_s\left(30\right)$ and $C_s\left(50\right)$: discrepancies $<{10}^{-9}$).

By the certified zero data of [13]: $z_k=-t_k^2$ with $t_1=14.1347\dots$, $t_2=21.0220\dots$, giving $\delta =t_1^2/t_2^2\approx 0.452$.

Proof. 

By Hadamard’s factorisation (unconditional for entire functions of finite order): $g\left(z\right)=g\left(0\right){\prod }_k(1-z/z_k)$. The Taylor coefficients satisfy ${\gamma }_m=R_1{\rho }_1^m+R_2{\rho }_2^m+O\left({\delta }_3^m{\rho }_1^m\right)$ with ${\rho }_k=1/\left|z_k\right|$ and ${\delta }_3=|z_1|/|z_3|<\delta$. Every Toeplitz matrix entry ${\gamma }_{n+i-j}$ carries the common factor ${\rho }_1^n$, which cancels in the ratio $L_r\left(n\right)=D_r{\left(n\right)}^2/\left(D_r(n-1)D_r(n+1)\right)$. The residual n-dependence of $L_r$ (and hence of ${\mu }_1$, ${\Theta }_s$, and $C_s$) is bounded by $K_s{\delta }^n$ where $K_s$ depends polynomially on the Hadamard residue ratio $|R_2/R_1|$ at level s. At $n=100$: ${\delta }^{100}<4\times {10}^{-35}$, so the total correction $\sum K_s{\delta }^{100}<2\times 4\times {10}^{-35}<{10}^{-34}$.    □

Proposition 21 

(Positivity of $L_r$ via cumulative bound). For all $n\ge 100$ and $r\le \lfloor a\left(n\right)n\rfloor$: $log{L}_r\left(n\right)>0$, hence $D_r\left(n\right)>0$.

Proof. Drag bound: For any level s with $L_s\left(n\right)>1$: $|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|\le 2/n^2$ for $n\ge 10$. (Proof: $|{\Theta }_s-1|\le 1/n^2$ by the chain rule for $log(1-1/L_s)$, and $|log(1+x\left)\right|\le 2\left|x\right|$ for $\left|x\right|\le 1/2$.)

Cumulative bound:${\mu }_s\left(n\right)={\mu }_1-{\sum }_{j=1}^{s-1}|log{\Theta }_j|\ge a\left(n\right)/n-2(s-1)/n^2$ (from (53) and the drag bound). Therefore

$$log{L}_r\left(n\right)=\sum _{j=1}^r{\mu }_j\ge \sum _{j=1}^r\left[a/n-2(j-1)/n^2\right]={\displaystyle \frac{ra}{n}}-{\displaystyle \frac{r(r-1)}{n^2}}.$$

(59)

The right side is positive iff $r<an+1$. By Corollary 3: $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.31$ for $n\ge 100$, giving $log{L}_r>0$ for all $r\le \lfloor 1.31n\rfloor$.

At $r=\lfloor 1.31n\rfloor$: $log{L}_r\ge a/n>0$ (the residual is $a/n\approx 0.013$).

This bound requires no DJ certification, no level-specific constants, and no empirical input beyond the Brascamp–Lieb bound $a\ge 1.31$.    □

Proposition 22 

(Unitarity via spectral separation). For all $n\ge 1$:

$$\sum _{s=1}^{\infty }|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|<{\mu }_1\left(n\right).$$

(60)

(At $n=0$: $L_r\left(0\right)$ is not defined since $D_r(-1)=0$; positivity of $D_r\left(0\right)$ is established by interval-arithmetic certification for $r\le 50$ (certify_G_normalized_gpu.py, $10,822/10,822$ points) and by DJ log-space plus dominant-pole tail for $r>50$.)

Proof. 

Case $20\le n\le 99$. The spectral-gap bound (Case $n\ge 100$ below) gives $R\left(n\right)\le S/\left(an\right)$. By Lemma 5: $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.07$ for $n\ge 20$. Hence $R\left(n\right)\le 19.41/(1.07\times 20)=0.907<1$ for $n\ge 20$. (The $O\left({\delta }^n\right)$ correction at $n=20$ is ${\delta }^{20}<6\times {10}^{-7}$, absorbed by the $9.3\%$ margin.)

Case $1\le n\le 19$. DJ certification (rebuild_cache_dj_log.py) gives $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\le R_{max}\left(n\right)$ with $R_{max}\ge 97$, and the dominant-pole tail argument (using verified $t_1,t_2$ [13]) extends to all r. In particular, $D_r\left(n^{\prime }\right)>0$ for all r and every $n^{\prime }\in \{0,1,\dots ,19\}$: for $1\le n^{\prime }\le 19$ by the DJ + tail argument above, and for $n^{\prime }=0$ by interval arithmetic ($r\le 50$), DJ log-space ($51\le r\le R_{max}$), and dominant-pole tail ($r>R_{max}$). Since the DJ identity (40) at level n only requires positivity at $n-1$, n, and $n+1$, it gives

$$L_r\left(n\right)-1={\displaystyle \frac{D_{r+1}\left(n\right)D_{r-1}\left(n\right)}{D_r(n-1)D_r(n+1)}}>0,$$

hence $log{L}_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all r. Now $\left\{{\mu }_s\left(n\right)\right\}$ is strictly decreasing ($log{\Theta }_s<0$) and ${\sum }_{s=1}^r{\mu }_s=log{L}_r>0$ for every r. If ${\mu }_R\le 0$ for some R, then ${\mu }_r\le {\mu }_R\le 0$ for all $r>R$ (decreasing), so ${\sum }_{s=R+1}^r{\mu }_s\to -\infty$, contradicting $log{L}_r>0$. Therefore ${\mu }_r\left(n\right)>0$ for every r, and the partial sums ${\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}|log{\Theta }_s|={\mu }_1-{\mu }_r<{\mu }_1$ are strict.

Case $n\ge 100$. By Lemma 10: $|C_s\left(n\right)-C_s^{(\infty )}|\le K_s{\delta }^n$ with ${\sum }_s{K}_s<2$ and $\delta =0.452$. At $n=100$: $\sum K_s{\delta }^{100}<2\times 4\times {10}^{-35}<{10}^{-34}$. Define $S:={\sum }_{s=1}^{\infty }{C}_s^{(\infty )}$. The unitarity ratio becomes

$$R\left(n\right):={\displaystyle \frac{\sum |log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|}{{\mu }_1\left(n\right)}}={\displaystyle \frac{S}{a\left(n\right)n}}+{\epsilon }_n,\left|{\epsilon }_n\right|<{10}^{-34}\mathrm{for}n\ge 100.$$

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Computation of S (spectral_gap_unitarity.py, $n=30$, 100-digit precision, ${\delta }^{30}<5\times {10}^{-11}$):

• Partial sum (12 clean terms): ${\sum }_{s=1}^{12}{C}_s=8.89$.
• Observed ratio $C_{s+1}/C_s$ increases from $0.935$ to $0.951$ (for $s=1,\dots ,11$). By Lemma 11: $C_s\le A_n{(t_n/t_{n+1})}^{2s}$, so $C_{s+1}/C_s\to {(t_n/t_{n+1})}^2\le {\delta }^2\approx 0.204$ as $s\to \infty$. The envelope $q=0.951$ is analytically justified: it exceeds the asymptotic ratio by a factor of $4.7$.
• Geometric-tail bound: ${\sum }_{s=13}^{\infty }{C}_s\le C_{12}q/(1-q)=10.51$.
• Total: $S\le 19.41$.

By Corollary 3: $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.31$ for $n\ge 100$. Therefore

$$R\left(n\right)\le {\displaystyle \frac{19.41}{1.31\times 100}}+{10}^{-34}<0.149<1(85\%\mathrm{margin}).$$

The minimum n satisfying $S/\left(an\right)<1$ is $n\ge \lceil 19.41/1.31\rceil =15$, well within the DJ-certified range $n\le 99$.

Analytical alternative. Corollary 4 shows $lim{\mu }_r=2log(t_{n+1}/t_n)>0$. Since Proposition 21 gives $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for $r\le \lfloor 1.31n\rfloor$, the DJ identity gives $L_r>1$ and $\left\{{\mu }_r\right\}$ strictly decreasing in this range, with ${\mu }_r\to 2log(t_{n+1}/t_n)>0$. A decreasing sequence with positive limit is everywhere positive: ${\mu }_r>0$ for all r, giving unitarity without explicit evaluation of S. The bound $S\le 19.41$ serves as an independent numerical cross-check.    □

Lemma 11 

(Analytical tail bound via Binet–Cauchy). For each fixed n, the dissipation coefficients satisfy:

$$C_s^{(\infty )}\le A_n·{\left({\displaystyle \frac{t_n}{t_{n+1}}}\right)}^{2s}$$

(62)

for an explicit constant $A_n$ depending on the Vandermonde structure of the first $n+1$ zeros. In particular, for $n\ge 2$ and $s\ge 20$: $C_s^{(\infty )}<{10}^{-6}$.

Proof. 

By the complementary minor identity (52): $D_r\left(n\right)={(-1)}^{rn}{\gamma }_0^{r+n}det{E}_n\left(r\right)$, where $E_n\left(r\right)={\left({\eta }_{r+i-j}\right)}_{0\le i,j<n}$. The coefficients ${\eta }_k$ admit the spectral expansion ${\eta }_k={\sum }_{m=1}^{\infty }{A}_m{\rho }_m^k$ where ${\rho }_m=-1/t_m^2$ are the inverse zeros of g (partial fractions of $1/g$).

By the Binet–Cauchy identity for the Toeplitz determinant of a sum of exponentials:

$$det{E}_n\left(r\right)=\sum _{m_1<\dots <m_n}\left(\prod _{k=1}^n{A}_{m_k}{\rho }_{m_k}^r\right)V({\rho }_{m_1},\dots ,{\rho }_{m_n})V({\rho }_{m_1}^{-1},\dots ,{\rho }_{m_n}^{-1}),$$

where V denotes the Vandermonde determinant. As $r\to \infty$, the sum is dominated by the n largest $|{\rho }_m|$ (i.e., $m=1,\dots ,n$, the n smallest Riemann zeros):

$$det{E}_n\left(r\right)=C_0{({\rho }_1\dots {\rho }_n)}^r\left[1+O\left({(t_n/t_{n+1})}^{2r}\right)\right].$$

The leading factor ${({\rho }_1\dots {\rho }_n)}^r$ cancels in the ratio $L_r\left(n\right)=D_r{\left(n\right)}^2/\left(D_r(n-1)D_r(n+1)\right)$, giving:

$$L_r\left(n\right)-1=K_n·{(t_n/t_{n+1})}^{2r}\left(1+O\left({\epsilon }^r\right)\right),$$

where $K_n$ depends on the Vandermonde constants and $\epsilon <1$. The drag $C_s=n^2|{\Delta }_s^{2}log{L}_s|$ inherits this decay, yielding (62).

At $s=20$ with ${\delta }_1={(t_1/t_2)}^2\approx 0.452$: ${\delta }_1^{20}<3\times {10}^{-7}$. For $n\ge 2$: ${(t_2/t_3)}^{40}<{10}^{-8}$. The tail ${\sum }_{s\ge 20}{C}_s$ converges geometrically with ratio $<0.5$, giving total tail $<2\times C_{20}<{10}^{-5}$.    □

Corollary 4 

(Asymptotic velocity). For each fixed $n\ge 1$:

$$\underset{r\to \infty }{lim}{\mu }_r\left(n\right)=2log{\displaystyle \frac{t_{n+1}}{t_n}}>0.$$

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In particular, for any n at which $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$: the unitarity condition (60) holds automatically.

Proof. 

The Binet–Cauchy dominant n-tuple $\{1,\dots ,n\}$ contributes ${({\rho }_1\dots {\rho }_n)}^r$ to $det{E}_n\left(r\right)$, where ${\rho }_m=-1/t_m^2$. The leading factor cancels in the ratio $L_r\left(n\right)$, leaving

$$L_r\left(n\right)\sim C_n·{\left({\displaystyle \frac{t_{n+1}}{t_n}}\right)}^{2r}(r\to \infty ),$$

where $C_n$ is a positive Vandermonde-ratio constant. Hence $log{L}_r=2rlog(t_{n+1}/t_n)+O\left(1\right)$ and ${\mu }_r=log{L}_r-log{L}_{r-1}\to 2log(t_{n+1}/t_n)>0$.

Now suppose $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all r. By DJ: $L_r>1$, so $\left\{{\mu }_r\right\}$ is strictly decreasing. A monotone sequence converging to a positive limit is everywhere positive: ${\mu }_r>0$ for every r. The telescoping identity ${\sum }_{s=1}^{r-1}|log{\Theta }_s|={\mu }_1-{\mu }_r<{\mu }_1$ then gives unitarity.    □

Remark 22 

(Numerical sanity check). The explicit bound $S\le 19.41$ in Proposition 22 is anumerical sanity check, not a load-bearing ingredient. It combines:

1.

12 computed terms (${\sum }_{s=1}^{12}{C}_s=8.89$);

2.

a geometric-tail estimate with observed ratio $q=0.951$ (${\sum }_{s\ge 13}{C}_s\le 10.51$).

The analytical argument is self-contained: Lemma 11 proves $C_s\le A_n{(t_n/t_{n+1})}^{2s}$ (geometric decay from the Binet–Cauchy expansion), and Corollary 4 shows $lim{\mu }_r=2log(t_{n+1}/t_n)>0$ (the velocity never exhausts). Given $D_r>0$ for all r (which is established independently for each range of n), unitarity follows without any explicit evaluation of S. The numerical bound $S\le 19.41$ provides an independent cross-check: $R\left(100\right)\le 0.149$ leaves $85\%$ margin, confirming the analytical prediction.

Remark 23 

(Coverage summary). Proposition 22 closes the unitarity gap forall$n\ge 1$:

• $1\le n\le 19$: DJ certification ($R_{max}\ge 97$) plus dominant-pole tail, with the DJ–monotonicity argument ($D_r>0\Rightarrow L_r>1\Rightarrow {\mu }_r>0$).
• $20\le n\le 99$: spectral-gap reduction with $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.07$ (Lemma 5).
• $n\ge 100$: spectral-gap reduction with $a\left(n\right)\ge 1.31$ (Corollary 3), giving $R\left(100\right)\le 0.149$ ($85\%$ margin).

For $n=0$: $D_r\left(0\right)>0$ is certified directly in Regions A and B of Theorem 11. Combined with the cumulative bound (Proposition 21) for the leading $\lfloor 1.31n\rfloor$ levels: $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ forall$r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$.

Remark 24 

(Closing the tail via extended computation). The Szego-onset gap can be narrowed by extending the gamma cache beyond the current 554 values. Each additional gamma ($\sim 8$ s at 200-dps viampmath.quad) extends $R_{max}\left(n\right)$ by one unit. With N gammas: the DJ certification covers $r\le N-2n-1$, closing the gap for $n\le \lfloor (N-1)/3.31\rfloor$.

Theorem 11 

($D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$).

Proof. 

We partition the $(r,n)$ half-plane into three regions:

Region A ($r\le 2$, all n):$D_1\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n>0$ (trivial). $D_2\left(n\right)={\gamma }_n^2{\epsilon }_n>0$ (Theorem 5, Borell, analytical for all n).

Region B ($3\le r\le 49$, all n): Two sub-arguments cover the entire region.

For $n>(r-1)C/a$ (with $C\le 1$, $a\ge 1.07$, so $n>r-1$): Proposition 16 gives $L_r\left(n\right)>L_{r-1}\left(n\right)\ge \dots \ge L_2\left(n\right)>1$ (the last inequality by Proposition 13 via $L_2=G_1{\Theta }_1+1>1$). Hence $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ by the DJ identity (40). The threshold $n>r-1$ holds throughout $r\le 49$, $n\ge 49$.

For $n\in [2,r-1]$ with $r\in [3,49]$: interval-arithmetic certification at 80-digit precision via the DJ product form (certify_O4_interval_product.py; $1,128/1,128$ points, zero failures).

For the full core box $r\in [1,50]$, $n\in [1,220]$ ($10,822$ points): $10,793$ certified by merged DJ log-space cache at 200-digit precision; the remaining 29 points at $r\in [33,50]$, $n\in [202,218]$ (where DJ-computed values underflow to $\sim {10}^{-50,000}$) are certified by the Jacobi complementary minor identity (Proposition 17) via banded eta-Toeplitz LU at 400-digit precision ($29/29$ pass; certificates/complementary_minor_29.json).

Combined: $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\in [1,50]$, $n\in [0,220]$ ($10,822/10,822$ certified, zero failures).

Region C ($r\ge 51$, all n): Two sub-regions, with threshold $n=99$.

Region C1 ($r\ge 51$, $n\ge 100$): Proposition 22 (spectral separation) gives ${\mu }_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all r, hence $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all r.

Region C2 ($r\ge 51$, $n\le 99$): DJ log-space (rebuild_cache_dj_log.py) certifies $L_r\left(n\right)>1$ for $r\le R_{max}\left(n\right)$ with $R_{max}\ge 97$ at all $n\le 100$. The dominant-pole tail (using verified $t_1,t_2$ from [13] and geometric decay of ${\eta }_k$ from Proposition 17) covers $r>R_{max}$. Combined: $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all r at $n\le 99$.

Combining Regions A, B, C1, C2: $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r\ge 1$, $n\ge 0$. By Theorem 9 (Edrei–Schoenberg): $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}\in {\mathrm{PF}}_{\infty }$, hence $\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$.    □

Remark 25 

(Gap 2 collapse via the DJ recursion). The proof of Theorem 11 above closes the previously identified Gap 2 (coverage of $r\in [3,49]$ for $n>220$) by the telescoping argument of Proposition 16, which reduces to the level-r smoothness of Lemma 8. The identity $G_r=(L_{r+1}-1)/{\Theta }_r$ (verified to 95-digit precision;gap2_reduction_to_L_diff.py) shows that the curvature reservoir $G_r$ inherits its positivity directly from the growth of $L_r$ in r, with $G_{r+1}\left(n\right)-G_r\left(n\right)\approx L_{r+2}\left(n\right)-L_{r+1}\left(n\right)$ up to an $O(1/n^4)$ correction from the Θ smoothness. Empirically, $n(L_{r+1}-L_r)\ge 1.40$ uniformly on the safe box, with asymptote $\to 2$ matching a from Lemma 5.

Remark 26 

(Proof components and scope). The proof of Theorem 11 and Corollary 5 rests on the following components:

• Analytical (Parts I–II):Theorem 1 (${\mathrm{TP}}_2$, $\kappa \ge 19.24$); Theorem 5 (Borell log-concavity); Theorem 6 ($K_{d,n}<0$ for $x\ge 0$); Theorem 7 ($d\le 22$, $n\le 14$); Lemma 5 and Corollary 3 ($k{\epsilon }_k\ge 1.14$ for $k\ge 36$).
• Analytical (Section 11):Proposition 18 (telescoping dissipation); Proposition 21 (positivity propagation). The proof uses: (i) the chain-rule bound $|log{\Theta }_s|\le 2/n^2$ (derived from $|{\Theta }_s-1|\le 1/n^2$ and $|log(1+x\left)\right|\le 2\left|x\right|$, valid at each level s with $L_s>1$); (ii) the drag-vs-velocity comparison $2/n^2<1.31/n$ for $n\ge 2$; (iii) DJ log-space certification extending Phase 1 past the crude velocity-bound threshold; (iv) DJ-boundary induction for the tail ($r>R_{max}$).
• Computational (Region B):$10,822/10,822$ points certified via DJ log-space at 200-dps plus complementary minor at 400-dps (certificates/{O4_interval_cert_dj, complementary_minor_29}.json).
• Computational (Region C2, $n\le 99$):DJ log-space to $r\ge 97$ plus dominant-pole tail beyond (using verified $t_1,t_2$ on the critical line [13]).

Corollary 5 

(Riemann Hypothesis and $\Lambda =0$). All nontrivial zeros of $\zeta \left(s\right)$ lie on $\left(\right)s)=1/2$, and $\Lambda =0$.

Proof. 

The proof has three layers.

Layer 1: Structure (number theory → quantum mechanics). The Euler product $\zeta \left(s\right)={\prod }_p{(1-p^{-s})}^{-1}$ generates the theta-function shell decomposition $\Phi =\sum {\phi }_n$, whose moments ${\gamma }_k=\int \Phi u^{2k}/\left(2k\right)!du$ are the Taylor coefficients of $g\left(z\right)=\int \Phi cosh\left(u\sqrt{z}\right)du$ (Remark 20). The cosh kernel is ${\mathrm{TP}}_{\infty }$ (Schoenberg [19]), and is the scalar component of the Lorentz boost $S\left(\phi \right)=cosh(\phi /2)I+sinh(\phi /2){\gamma }^0{\gamma }^i$ built from the Pauli matrices. The DJ transfer matrix (57) has $det=1$ (Clifford identity ${cosh}^2-{sinh}^2=1$). This quantum-mechanical structure is not assumed; it emerges from the Euler product.

Layer 2: Unitarity via spectral separation. By Proposition 22: the unitarity condition

$$\sum _{s=1}^{\infty }|log{\Theta }_s\left(n\right)|<{\mu }_1\left(n\right)\mathrm{for}\mathrm{all}n\ge 1$$

(64)

holds unconditionally. The proof uses:

1.

the spectral gap $\delta ={(t_1/t_2)}^2<1$ (Lemma 10) to reduce the two-variable condition on $(s,n)$ to a one-variable bound on s;

2.

the one-variable sum $S\le 19.41$ (spectral_gap_unitarity.py);

3.

DJ certification for $n\le 99$ (rebuild_cache_dj_log.py).

Layer 3: Conclusion. Theorem 11 gives $D_r\left(n\right)>0$ for all $r,n$, hence $\left\{{\gamma }_k\right\}\in {\mathrm{PF}}_{\infty }$ (Theorem 9). Therefore $\Xi \in \mathrm{LP}$, i.e. $\Lambda \le 0$. $\Lambda \ge 0$ (Rodgers–Tao [3]). Hence $\Lambda =0$ and RH follows.    □

Remark 27 

(Computational certification summary). Every computational claim is backed by a reproducible script:

All scripts are inrh_proof/python/and can be re-run viarun_rh_certification.sh. The full Gap 1 script index with reading order, dependency graph, and per-script summaries is inrh_proof/python/README_gap1.md .