The xi-prime method's sharp constant is 0.86864150052976706411 and falls 9.285e-4 short of Wu's 0.86957, the scalar-moment formulation collapses exactly to 0.6725007037, and higher derivatives remain blocked on Bian's missing tail bound, all about the source paper's method rather than a result about zeta.
hunts/wide_search (Record 5 of 98 in chronological sequence)
Guiding Question
Can a breadth-first search produce one externally checkable mathematical contribution adjacent to zeta, with aggressive killing, prior-art search, and independent reproduction, without privileging a direct route to RH?
Method & Verification
The instrument reproduced the paper's Theorem D to 10 digits and all four Remark 7.3 constants to every printed digit before being pointed at the unsolved xi-prime variational problem, with five independent computations of the optimum agreeing to 14 digits.
Lineage & Relationships
Primary Sources (at pin 8fa46e134)
Editorial Notes
No HuntSpec or HANDBACK at the pin. Question filled from MISSION.md's adjacent-contribution objective. Disposition is partly settled because the case log closes the scalar-moment LP and the xi-prime comparison, blocks F_k for k>=2, and leaves the full-data LP over marked periodic configurations open for frontier_math.
Date Provenance
commit 38a2d1e574a067dcf73cdcd93fbe352d937f4492, hunts/wide_search/, author 2026-08-10T23:07:21-05:00