Explicit control of imprimitive conductor multiplicity #
The exact conductor ledger counts a primitive character of conductor d once
for every multiple q = d r. This module rewrites that fibre literally and
then bounds it using the supermultiplicativity of Euler's totient. The
quadratic coarse bound in Q / d is deliberately elementary; the final dyadic
theorem records how this multiplicity is paid against the d² term in the
primitive large sieve.
Rewrite the levels divisible by d as q = d r, without discarding the
exact q / φ(q) weight.
Elementary explicit conductor-fibre bound. It is weaker than the optimal
logarithmic estimate but has the precise shape needed by a dyadic BV argument:
the extra multiplicity is at most (Q/d)².
Dyadic conductor-window transport. On D ≤ d ≤ 2D, the coarse fibre
multiplicity costs (Q/D)²; what remains is exactly the weight d/φ(d) used by
the primitive prefix large sieve.
Direct specialization to primitive prefix maxima. Combined with
weighted_primitive_prefix_maximal at modulus cutoff 2D, this is the exact
bridge from the imprimitive conductor ledger to the existing primitive LS.
The conductor window sum on the right is a nonnegative subsum of the range
1 ≤ d ≤ 2D.
Fully discharged dyadic-window estimate. The factor (Q/D)² multiplies
the primitive LS constant at cutoff 2D; in particular its quadratic modulus
term is (Q/D)² (2D)² ≤ 4Q², uniformly in the dyadic conductor range.
The key dyadic payment identity behind the preceding theorem. Although
the elementary conductor-fibre estimate loses (Q/D)², this loss cancels the
quadratic modulus scale (2D)² of the primitive large sieve, leaving at most
4Q². Thus the coarse bound is a genuine BV bound on the high-conductor
ranges where the N term is no larger than the modulus-square term.