The height cap on the kernel-checked strip proof is the order-4 Euler-Maclaurin error bar, which grows like a power of the height. This hunt formalizes the recorded alternative: Gabcke's explicit remainder for the Riemann-Siegel formula.
The source is Wolfgang Gabcke, Neue Herleitung und explizite Restabschätzung der Riemann-Siegel-Formel, Göttingen, 1979, reissued 2015. The PDF used here is the Göttingen file DissGab1979.pdf (133 pages), kept outside the repository. The university server returned 403 to a plain fetch; the copy was taken from the Internet Archive of that same file.
Target
Satz 3.2.2 (b), page 55. For real t ≥ 200 and K ≤ 9,
|R0(t)| < 0.127 t^{-3/4} |R1(t)| < 0.053 t^{-5/4}
|R2(t)| < 0.011 t^{-7/4} |R3(t)| < 0.031 t^{-9/4}
|R4(t)| < 0.017 t^{-11/4} |R5(t)| < 0.061 t^{-13/4}
|R6(t)| < 0.661 t^{-15/4} |R7(t)| < 9.2 t^{-17/4}
|R8(t)| < 130 t^{-19/4} |R9(t)| < 1837 t^{-21/4}and |R10(t)| < 25966 t^{-23/4}. For K ≤ 4 Gabcke calls the bounds optimal. R_K is the remainder after K correction terms in formula (6) of the introduction. The first payoff is K = 0: one main sum of length about sqrt(t), plus a remainder that does not grow like a power of t.
First check
Satz 2.1.1's recursion for λ_n matches the seven values printed on pages 19–20. Lean's kernel accepts that match (lean/Coefficients.lean, lambda_printed and lambda_divides) with no axioms. That is not the remainder bound.
id: gabcke_remainder
question: Can Lean prove Gabcke's explicit bounds on the first 11 Riemann-Siegel remainders for every real t at least 200, with zero sorry and only the standard axioms?
frontier: the order-4 Euler-Maclaurin box dies as a power of t; at height 1000 the corner needs about 990 terms and the code stops at 200; Gabcke's remainder is unformalized
proposed_attack: formalize Satz 3.2.2 (b), starting from the coefficient recursion in Satz 2.1.1, then the remainder integral
dead_routes:
- raising the Euler-Maclaurin order, which only softens the power from 8/7 to 12/11
- copying the height-100 generator to a higher height
- quoting Gabcke's inequalities as axioms
required_oracles:
- Lean 4 kernel at the pinned toolchain, zero sorry, printed axioms
- the Göttingen 2015 PDF of Gabcke's thesis, checked against the printed lambda values
kill_conditions:
- the coefficient recursion disagrees with the values printed in Satz 2.1.1
- a stated bound fails a numerical check at a height where the main sum is known
- the kernel accepts the bound only by taking an external computation as an axiom
agents_may:
- derive
- code
- formalize
agents_may_not:
- declare the remainder proved before the kernel accepts it
- declare a higher finite height proved by this hunt
- treat a matched recursion as the remainder bound