Published November 19, 2025 | Version 1.0
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The Irreducible Structure of the Prime Distribution - A Constructive Model of Fixpoints, Global Causality, and the Structural Foundations of the Riemann Hypothesis and Goldbach's Conjecture

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This paper develops a constructive model of the number space in which prime numbers do not appear as properties of already-given integers, but as fixed points of a globally and irreducibly determined growth process. In contrast to classical arithmetic, which formulates primality as a local property of a number, the proposed model describes the emergence of numbers as dependent on the entire preceding multiplicative structure. The condition thus ceases to be a retrospective test and instead becomes a generative rule of formation. Consequently, primality is not determined at x by inspecting x itself; the generative state of the number space below x already contains the complete information about whether the next additive step can be realized or must remain structurally ungenerated. In this sense, the property of being prime precedes the number to which it applies.

From this viewpoint, central phenomena of analytic number theory arise not as statistical properties but as consequences of structural global causality: fixed points occur precisely where the existing structure permits no further generability. This yields natural interpretations of, among others, the sign changes of \pi(x) - \text{li}(x) (Littlewood), the Goldbach coupling of two fixed points, and the critical strip of the Riemann zeta function as an expression of a balanced projection effect. The model does not state these relationships as proofs in the classical sense, but as structural necessities within the constructive number space.

Finally, it is shown that every algorithm for prime generation that correctly internalizes the generative condition must satisfy the same global dependency on information. Such an algorithm is formulated in the form of a resonance-guided fixed-point procedure and visibly confirms the irreducibility of the prime distribution: primes cannot be predicted locally, but can only be detected in the unfolding of structure itself.

This paper is intended as a contribution to a foundational reconstruction of arithmetic: away from static property attribution, toward a generative perspective in which primes appear as emergent fixed points of a global structure.

In this sense, classical number theory studies the topological map of primes; the constructive model developed here studies the geological structure that makes this map inevitable.

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Dates

Accepted
2025-11-19

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/syntaris/primes4everybody
Programming language
Python, Go