Prime Atlas

An atlas of recurring prime-power coordinates.

PrimeMind is a visual and computational atlas of recurring prime-power coordinates, integer factor fingerprints, and prime-to-prime structure.

Every prime power pa is a permanent coordinate that repeats with exact period pa. An integer's fingerprint is the set of coordinates it switches on. Take 72 = 2³ · 3²: it lights five cells — 2¹, 2², 2³, 3¹, 3² — so Ω(72) = 5, it occupies two prime columns, so ω(72) = 2, and the lit cells reconstruct 72 exactly.

The laboratories on this site let you build that grid through large N, walk from one prime boundary to the next, audit the correspondence row by row, and compare the structure against controls and against finite sums over zeta zeros.

Prime bases increase to the right, exponent levels upward. A lit cell means pa divides n. Step through 71 → 72 → 73 to see a prime light exactly one cell.

How to read a claim on this site

Every statement, chart, and export is tagged with one of three marks.

Exact

Follows from proof or from unique factorization.

  • Each coordinate pa repeats with period pa.
  • Active cells reconstruct the complete factorization; their count is Ω(n).
  • Factor occurrences and active nested coordinates correspond one-to-one.
  • The global layer maximum through N is ⌊log₂ N⌋.
  • LPF branch ownership and the branch-layer envelope.

Empirical

Verified on named finite computations, with the run recorded.

  • Reduced-coordinate filtering experiments.
  • Finite zeta-zero reconstruction and frozen threshold tests.
  • Large prime-gap balance and half-balance scans.

Open

Research questions. Not theorems, and not claimed as such.

  • Compression of the complete coordinate state.
  • Next-prime prediction from a reduced fingerprint.
  • Predictive use of completed gap skeletons.
  • Scale-independent zeta classification.
  • Any implication for the Riemann hypothesis.

Laboratories

Self-contained pages. Nothing runs until you press Build, and every export is computed in your browser.

Branch geometry

Four smaller labs on largest-prime-factor branches, layers, and the exact envelope law. About the branch labs

Paper and methods

The preliminary draft, Prime-Power Recurrence Atlas v0.2, states the definitions and exact results, records the finite experiments, and lists the open questions in the same three marks used here. The Overleaf source and the research journal are downloadable alongside it.

Paper, sources, and version history

The methods page fixes the vocabulary — recurrence coordinate, prime boundary, factor fingerprint, gap skeleton, largest prime factor — and states the information boundary that every prediction experiment must respect: what is allowed before a target is revealed, and what only exists after.

Methods and terminology