Chebyshev-Exact Acceleration under Hessian Variation, II: Computer-Assisted Variational Lower Bound

Abstract

We study two-step recurrences with positive step sizes and nonnegative momentum coefficients whose terminal residual is the Chebyshev minimax polynomial on a prescribed spectral interval $[μ,L]$. These recurrences have the same terminal error on a fixed quadratic, but their first-order responses to stepwise Hessian perturbations can differ. We prove that the sine-Jacobi recurrence of Part I is asymptotically optimal for this response norm within a factor of $1.000004$, uniformly over $0<μ 1.14268353624$, whereas the sine-Jacobi recurrence attains the constant $2\sqrt{c_{\sin}}$ with $c_{\sin}<1.14269218$. The proof reduces the gain to the diagonal energy of a Jacobi Green matrix. A centering lift represents this matrix by an exponential kernel; packing its diagonal into a density on the line preserves the energy and controls the change in the Birman-Schwinger spectrum. A calibrated identity gives a lower bound using the ground parameter and one Fredholm determinant. Two further determinants and a trace observation improve the bound through a pointwise inequality on an explicit compact state region. One rational certificate verifies this inequality by interval arithmetic. A second certificate constructs a density satisfying the selected observations and both normalizations with energy below the sine value. Finally, no $C^1$ function of finitely many observations of the specified kinds gives a locally sharp lower bound at the sine density.