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Weak Prime Evidence Has Finite Total

Abstract

Prime-indexed weak Bernoulli coordinates have positive, vanishing, summable negative-log affinity evidence.

Theorem 1.1 (Infinitely many weak coordinates can have finite total evidence).

Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/TotalVariation/Asymptotics/WeakPrimeEvidenceFiniteTotal.weak_prime_evidence_finite_total (✓ std3). ∎

Source. Repository-derived.

Commentary.

For each prime p, take the canonical symmetric Bernoulli pair with opposite biases p to the power minus two. Its Bhattacharyya affinity is strictly below one, so its negative logarithm is positive.

The frozen second-order expansion bounds the remainder by a constant multiple of p to the power minus eight. The leading term is a multiple of p to the power minus four. Both prime-power series are summable, and summability also forces the evidence terms to vanish along the cofinite filter.

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