The Canonical Theta Route Wronskian Measures Interference Crossing
Source-framed routes
Let be the completed even theta source on the real logarithmic line. Split its transform at the source-fixed seam :
The completed scalar section is
The two routes are defined before inspecting zeros. Their order is fixed by the positive and negative logarithmic orientations, and is the genuine Mellin/dilation parameter. Thus differentiation with respect to has source authority.
Framed Wronskian
Define
Under route exchange, changes sign. Under reciprocal parameter reflection, it satisfies
Reality of gives
Thus is an even, real-entire framed crossing observable.
Source integral
Differentiating the two routes gives
Therefore
For real , a nonnegative nonzero source makes
This is a genuine orientation on the real Mellin axis. At complex , the oscillatory phase removes automatic sign control.
Value at a scalar zero
Suppose
Then , and hence
Consequently:
- if and the scalar zero is simple, then ;
- if , then either both route amplitudes vanish or the scalar crossing is multiple.
The Wronskian therefore distinguishes a nondegenerate interference crossing from route collapse or tangency without promoting the scalar zero to a full kernel.
Relation to the full character lift
The complete residue-character packet proves that the labelled arithmetic state remains distinguishable at every finite cutoff. The Wronskian supplies the next datum: orientation of the two-route scalar projection as the Mellin parameter moves.
These are independent certificates:
- the character lift proves presence of the hidden packet;
- the Wronskian measures how its trivial-character projection crosses zero.
No confinement yet
Reciprocal symmetry makes even, not seam-supported. Reality pairs its values at conjugate points. Neither property forces a nondegenerate crossing to occur on the imaginary -axis.
A hostile self-dual carrier also admits the same half-line split and Wronskian. Therefore the existence and nonvanishing of do not imply RH.
The remaining source theorem must constrain the phase or character of at a zero using genuinely arithmetic radial--angular coupling.
Arithmetic lift target
The full framed crossing should refine to character components
with conductor-compatible analysis and primitive/square boundary terms.
The first useful question is whether the trivial-character Wronskian is determined by a cyclic product of nontrivial character routes. If so, a hostile scalar divisor may fail that cycle even while preserving .
Falsifiers
The crossing programme fails if:
- route ordering is not source-fixed;
- differentiation depends on a fitted parameter chart;
- the Wronskian is unchanged under every hostile divisor-bearing modification;
- characterwise refinement leaves its phase unconstrained;
- completion destroys continuity of the route derivatives.
Disposition
The canonical Wronskian is the correct lift of scalar darkness from a value to an oriented crossing. It is fully source-derived and avoids fitted kernelization.
Its sign is automatic only on the real axis, not on the RH seam. The next advance must be an arithmetic cycle law for its complex phase.