For \( q≥1 \) and \( gcd(a,q)=1 \) we study the restricted weighted Goldbach sum \( Ra,q(N)=∑_{p₁+p₂=N,\; p₁≡ a\,(q)} (logp₁)(logp₂) \), the sum being over primes. An elementary local obstruction shows that if an odd prime \( \) divides \( q \), then on the set of even \( N≡a (mod ) \), of density \( 1/{} \), the sum collapses to \( Oq(logN) \); hence a main term of size \( N/φ(q) \) can hold for almost all even \( N \) only for \( q=2ᵏ \), and for general \( q \) the correct main term carries the admissibility condition \( gcd(N-a,q)=1 \). For \( q=2ᵏ \) we prove, by the circle method with Vaughan’s minor-arc bound, the Siegel–Walfisz theorem on the major arcs and an exact evaluation of the singular-series coefficients, the mean-square estimate \( ∑N≤ X |Ra,q(N)-Ma,q(N)|²{ }A,qX³(logX)-A \) for every \( A>0 \), an exceptional set of size \( OA,q(X(logX)-A) \), and an asymptotic formula with positive singular series for the restricted ternary sum, hence the representation of every large odd integer as a sum of three primes the first of which lies in a prescribed odd class modulo \( 2ᵏ \). For general moduli we record the almost-all theorem for the corrected main term, conditional on a mean-value theorem of Tolev, and the local densities of the restricted ternary problem at every prime power dividing \( q \). We then prove that the odd part \( {S}₀(p+h) \) of the singular series along shifted primes converges in distribution to the explicit random Euler product \( Yₕ=∏> 2,\; h {( -1/ -2)}^{B} \), with independent Bernoulli variables \( B \) of mean \( 1/({}-1) \), by a self-contained argument based on the Brun–Titchmarsh inequality. All integer moments converge to absolutely convergent Euler products, which are given in closed form as a function of the shift and enclosed in rigorous interval arithmetic for \( h=1 \) and \( h=3 \); the Mellin transform is entire of order at most one, with \( logMₕ(σ )≤ σ loglogσ +C₀σ \) . The law has no atoms, unbounded support and a doubly exponentially thin upper tail, \( P(Yₕ> y)≤ exp(-exp(c₀y)) \), which is sharp on a doubly logarithmic scale for every shift \( h \); by the Jessen–Wintner theorem the law is of pure type. Combining the two parts, we show that \( φ (q)Ra,q(p+h)/(2C₂(p+h)) \) converges in distribution to \( Yₕ for q=2ᵏ \) and odd \( h \), and, by the upper-bound sieve, that all its moments converge to those of \( Yₕ \); in particular the mean number of restricted representations of \( p+1 \) is \( C₂A₁(1)≈ \) 1.1505 times that of a generic even integer of the same size. The relation to the additive richness of a prime-generation graph is established under a stated Hardy–Littlewood hypothesis. An inverse richness–hub correlation of about -0.79 over the first N primes, 500 ≤ \( N \) ≤ 20000, is recorded as a computational finding together with a size-controlled analysis: the finite window of the graph forces the hub count to decrease with the size of the prime, and once size and the singular-series factor are controlled jointly the residual correlation is of absolute value at most 0.20 and decreases with \( N \). Truncation-matched Kolmogorov distances between the empirical law of \( {S}₀(p+1) \) and the model are reported. All implied constants coming from the Siegel–Walfisz theorem are ineffective, and the paper proves neither Goldbach’s conjecture nor finiteness of any exceptional set.
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