Prime-shift operators on Bj\"orner's complex of squarefree integers: an exact decomposition of the Mertens invariant, rigorous recovery bounds for the Guinand--Weil pipeline, and a structural obstruction to the spectral modification

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22823572
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Advanced Algebra and Geometry
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Prime-shift operators on Bj\"orner's complex of squarefree integers: an exact decomposition of the Mertens invariant, rigorous recovery bounds for the Guinand--Weil pipeline, and a structural obstruction to the spectral modification

Luca Eliseo Pavesi
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Advanced Algebra and Geometry
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Prime-shift operators on Bj\"orner's complex of squarefree integers: an exact decomposition of the Mertens invariant, rigorous recovery bounds for the Guinand--Weil pipeline, and a structural obstruction to the spectral modification

Luca Eliseo Pavesi
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Abstract

Let $\Delta_{n}$ denote Bj\"orner's simplicial complex on the squarefree integers $m\leq n$ and let$H_{n} = \sum_{p\leq n}c_{p}(T_{p} + T_{p}^{*})$be the self-adjoint operator obtained from the prime-shift operators $T_{p}$ with bounded weights $c_{p}$. This paper is the fifth revision of \cite{pavesi2026v1}, superseding the first four. It contains corrections of errors, new exact results, rigorous stability bounds for the Toeplitz--Hankel pipeline, and a structural obstruction to the spectral modification conjectured in the fourth revision. Corrections. (i) The bipartite block $A: C_{\mathrm{even}} \to C_{\mathrm{odd}}$ of $H_{n}$ is the full sum$A = A_{\uparrow} + A_{\downarrow}$, with$Ae_{m} = \sum_{p\nmid m,pm\le n}c_{p}e_{pm} + \sum_{p\mid m}c_{p}e_{m/p}$.(ii) The maximal elements span $\ker A_{\uparrow}$, not $\ker A$. The earlier statement $\ker A = \{0\}$ is false: at $n=10^{4}$, $\dim\ker A = \dim C_{\mathrm{even}} - \operatorname{rank}(A) = 3030 - 2141 = 889$. What is true is that $\ker A$ is strictly smaller than $\ker A_{\uparrow}|_{C_{\mathrm{even}}}$. (iii) The values $c_{*}$ reported in the earlier revisions correspond to $A_{\uparrow}$, not to $A$; at $n=10^{4}$, $\operatorname{rank}(A_{\uparrow})=1125$, $\operatorname{rank}(A)=2141$, so $c_{*}=0.185$ while the full density is $c=0.352$. (iv) The kernel of $H_{n}$ therefore has density $1-2c\approx 0.296$, not $1-2c_{*}\approx 0.630$. New exact results. (v) We prove that the maximal elements of $[1,n]$ are exactly $m = P_{k}m'$ with $P_{k}=p_{1}\cdots p_{k}$ the $k$-th primorial, $m'$ squarefree coprime to $P_{k}$, and $m' \in (n/(p_{k+1}P_{k}),\, n/(p_{k}P_{k})]$. This yields the exact formula for $M_{\mathcal{M}}(n)$. (vi) We prove that the identity $M(n) = M_{\mathcal{M}}(n) + M_{\mathcal{M}}^{T}(n)$ is not the correct decomposition; the correct identity is $M(n) = M_{\mathcal{M}}(n) + \dim R_{n}^{\uparrow} - \dim R_{n}^{\uparrow,T}$. Rigorous recovery. (vii) We prove truncation bounds for the prime-power sum and the archimedean integral in the explicit formula, both of order $O(e^{-c^{2}/4})$ in the truncation parameter. (viii) We prove a stability theorem for ESPRIT: the recovery error scales as $\varepsilon\, e^{\sigma^{2}\gamma_{M}^{2}}$, with the exponential amplification being intrinsic to the inverse problem. (ix) We prove a bound on the Vandermonde conditioning $C_{M,\delta,K}$ that is exponential in $M$, identifying the fundamental numerical bottleneck of the pipeline. Structural obstruction. (x) We prove three independent obstructions showing that the spectral modification $\tilde H_{n} = (I-P_{n})H_{n}(I-P_{n})$ conjectured in the fourth revision cannot converge to the zeros of $\zeta$. (I) For $s>1/2$, $\|H_{n}\|_{\mathrm{op}}\le 2P(s)$, so the spectral measure is compactly supported. (II) The second moment of $H_{n}$ is finite, while the second moment of the prime term in the explicit formula diverges: $H_{n}$ misses all prime powers $p^{j}$, $j\ge2$. (III) The density of eigenvalues of $H_{n}$ in any fixed interval is uniform, while the density of zeros $\gamma_{\rho}$ is logarithmic. We also correct an error of the fourth revision: the operators $\gamma_{p}=T_{p}+T_{p}^{*}$ do not commute in the truncated complex. No proof of the Riemann Hypothesis is claimed.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Advanced Algebra and Geometry
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