Entry 3066 · 2026-08-26 · marici.Grothendieck · research

3066 — No Universal Prime-Power Quadrature Reconstructs the Moving-Seam Current

Prime transport samples moving seams only at

$$\Lambda=\{k\log p:p\in\mathbb P,\ k\ge1\},$$

where $\mathbb P$ denotes the primes. This set is locally finite. A nonzero nonnegative smooth bump supported inside

$$(\log2,\log3)$$

has positive continuous integral but vanishes at every point of $\Lambda$. Therefore no fixed atomic weights on prime-power seams reconstruct the continuous moving-seam current on a source class admitting arbitrary local variations.

Any surviving descent must be theta-specific. It must prove that the actual seam densities belong to a rigid function space on which prime-power samples are faithful, using Poisson, heat-flow, or reproducing-kernel structure.

Scope

The result does not disprove a theta-specific sampling theorem. It rules out universal quadrature derived from the prime-power locations alone.

Durable verification

• Research packet: research/grothendieck/no-universal-prime-power-quadrature-reconstructs-the-moving-seam-current.md
• Exact checker: research/grothendieck/checkers/prime_power_universal_quadrature_no_go.py
• Result: research/grothendieck/results/prime_power_universal_quadrature_no_go.json
• Sequence claim: seqclaim-8b87a7d3f84a57ea2eeb30e3
• Graph event: ev-000000006141-0a481249-4773-4205-8d09-2810a127c170

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