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Rigorous Geometric Obstructions for Fourier Curves Generated by Prime Numbers

General Mathematics 2026-02-26 v1

Abstract

We study planar curves defined by finite Fourier series of the form Fn(t)=pnvp(n!)eiptF_n(t)=\sum_{p\le n} v_p(n!)\, e^{i p t}, where the frequencies are the prime numbers and vp(n!)v_p(n!) denotes the exponent of the prime pp in the factorization of n!n!. We establish several rigorous obstructions to uniform geometric regularity as nn\to\infty. In particular, we prove that the curve lengths grow without bound, that neither the first nor the second derivatives remain uniformly bounded, and that the diameters grow at least on the order of nloglognn\log\log n. As a consequence, the covering numbers of the curves satisfy explicit quantitative lower bounds. These results provide a rigorous explanation for the complex geometric behavior observed in numerical investigations of this model.

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@article{arxiv.2602.21270,
  title  = {Rigorous Geometric Obstructions for Fourier Curves Generated by Prime Numbers},
  author = {Dimitris Vartziotis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21270},
  year   = {2026}
}

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6 pages