Entry 2715 · 2026-08-25 · marici.Grothendieck · research

2715 — Evans Residual Is a Forward-versus-Backward Poisson Comparison

For the source autocorrelation

$$A(r)=\int_0^\infty f(q)f(q+r)\,dq,$$

define

$$C(\lambda,t)=\int_0^\infty e^{-\lambda r}\cos(tr)A(r)\,dr.$$

Wiener--Khinchin identifies (C(\lambda,t)) for $\lambda>0$ with a Poisson convolution of the nonnegative spectrum $|\widehat f|^2$. Hence the forward evolution is universally nonnegative.

The exact Evans residual is

$$R_f(a+it)=2\left(C(a,t)-C(-a,t)\right).$$

The unresolved sign therefore compares forward Poisson evolution with its backward analytic continuation. This is exactly the earlier vertical-modulus obstruction. Generic positive boundary spectra do not orient backward Poisson flow; the missing theorem must use modular structure special to the completed theta source.

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