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Finite-core Volterra reductions for a Weyl-positive Riemann phase kernel

Number Theory 2026-06-28 v1

Abstract

We record a Weyl-positive reduction and certificate framework for the Riemann phase kernel associated with the even Riemann kernel Φ\Phi. The manuscript does not present a complete proof of the Riemann hypothesis. Its immediate analytic target is a concrete positivity theorem for a Weyl kernel whose quantum characteristic function satisfies the Kastler--Loupias--Miracle-Sole condition in all numerical tests performed so far. Several natural factorizations are ruled out. In particular, the positive anti-Wick density route is obstructed by a local heat-deconvolution test, and several natural finite-core reductions are excluded by explicit counterexamples. The surviving structure is a finite-core Volterra program upgraded to a closed-trace quotient certificate for the full kernel. We derive exact same-sign finite-core formulae, the second-order theta-mode identity ϕn(t)=(t21/4)(et/2eπn2e2t)\phi_n(t)=(\partial_t^2-1/4)(e^{t/2}e^{-\pi n^2e^{2t}}) for n1n\ge1, a Volterra boundary-plus-tail representation, and a quotient Schur factorization for the normalized full-Φ\Phi source/Volterra model. The latest certificate closes the active trace-range condition, the full-continuum source-inactive domination, and the Douglas/Moore--Penrose Schur hypotheses in the normalized model. What remains outside that certificate is explicitly separated: the quotient-to-original Weyl lift, uniform ω\omega-coverage for ω<1/2|\omega|<1/2, and the final bridge from Weyl/KLM positivity to the intended de Branges or RH-side formulation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.29555,
  title  = {Finite-core Volterra reductions for a Weyl-positive Riemann phase kernel},
  author = {Marvin B. Freedman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29555},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

102 pages. Reduction-and-certificate manuscript. Reproducibility artifacts: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20897437

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