Prime-Groove Chains in the Co-Rotating Collatz Frame: A Supplemental Note on Substrate Mathematics
Prime-Groove Chains in the Co-Rotating Collatz Frame: A Supplemental Note on Substrate Mathematics DOI: to be assigned John Swygert May 30, 2026 Abstract This supplemental paper extends the earlier paper, “Substrate Mathematics: Collatz Dynamics as Fractal Gradient Flattening on the Cylindrical Prime Lattice,” by introducing a co-rotating coordinate for viewing prime-groove chains inside the shifted Collatz cylinder. The earlier paper established that the shifted logarithmic phase coordinate θ(p) = fractional part of log₆(p + 1/5) produces exact phase recurrence among primes whenever p₂ + 1/5 = 6ᵏ(p₁ + 1/5). Equivalently, 5p₂ + 1 = 6ᵏ(5p₁ + 1). The one-step case gives the especially simple prime-link relation p₂ = 6p₁ + 1. Using the first 1,000 primes, from 2 through 7,919, we found 77 exact phase-equivalence classes containing two or more primes, 75 one-step links of the form p → 6p + 1, and 100 exact pairwise same-groove relationships when higher powers of 6 are included. Thi...