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Universal Inclusion of Prescribed Primes in 3x3 Magic Squares

General Mathematics 2026-04-14 v1

Abstract

We present an integrated version of the global program proving that every prescribed prime q05q_0\ge 5 occurs in some 3×33\times 3 magic square whose nine entries are distinct positive primes. The manuscript explicitly corrects the four points that had prevented the previous version from being regarded as closed: (i) the notation for the fixed prime q0q_0 is now kept uniformly distinct from the notation for the sieve moduli dd; (ii) the weight convention is unified by working with the function \vt(n)=logn\vt(n)=\log n on the primes and 00 off the primes, while Λ\Lambda is used only inside the analytic estimates where it is the natural variable; (iii) the full residual notation (W,aW,bW,S1,Ad,g(d))(W,a_W,b_W,S_1,A_d,g(d)) has been incorporated throughout the manuscript; and (iv) the final closure is replaced by a residual-completion theorem on the \emph{common support of the core}, thereby eliminating the logical gap produced by intersecting two independent theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2604.09753,
  title  = {Universal Inclusion of Prescribed Primes in 3x3 Magic Squares},
  author = {David Salas and Eloy Timón and Pepa Montero and Miguel León Pérez and Rubén González Martínez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09753},
  year   = {2026}
}

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