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The Method Matters More Than the Number: A Proposed Improvement to the Guth–Maynard Bound 30/13

The interest in lowering the coefficient to 24000/10451 ≈ 2.29643 lies mainly in the technique. The method aims to preserve relationships between oscillating terms, including how they can cancel, as sums are transformed. Bounding terms by their sizes alone can erase that information and weaken the estimates. Preserving it might help with other problems in number theory and harmonic analysis that share similar structures. That potential remains to be explored; the paper’s result is still pending verification.

The entire process was interactive and iterative: hundreds of exchanges with a frontier model, without a single autonomous agent, without using the API, and with zero client-side automation. My local computing resources were ordinary home equipment. I proposed, questioned and redirected each step. I believe this continuous involvement was essential to bring human creativity into the process and guide the model’s reasoning. Many conversations bordered on the absurd, the unfamiliar or the unorthodox. For me, that is where the human–machine “magic” emerged.

The manuscript is currently almost indigestible for a human reader: it contains failed attempts, detours and corrections. I estimate that the proof’s chain of arguments could fit into a dozen pages, out of the current 172. That distillation, and of course, formal proof, have yet to be done. Finally, math community help will ease human learning.

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"A Zero-Density Estimate with Coefficient 24000/10451 < 30/13 for the Riemann Zeta-Function"
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27464.07682
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