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This paper develops a real-variable Poisson--Zeta smoothing framework for studying prime-counting functions and the distribution of primes in short intervals. We introduce the positive prime-density function \(D_K(x)={K^KxK-1}{Γ(K)}∑_p p-Ke-Kx/p,\) which also admits a representation involving real values of the Riemann zeta function through Mobius inversion. Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis (RH), we establish that, for all sufficiently large \(x\), \(DK(x)(x)≥1/2log x,\) where \(K(x)= 1024e^2x0.98log x.\) Using gamma-kernel estimates, Stieltjes integration by parts, and the classical RH-conditional error bound for the Chebyshev function, we prove that every sufficiently large interval \((x-12x0.51,\,x+12x0.51)\) contains at least one prime. The method connects the localization properties of a positive smoothing kernel with prime-counting error estimates and provides a framework for investigating weighted prime-distribution inequalities. The resulting prime-interval bound is conditional on RH and does not improve existing RH-conditional results, including the stronger bounds of order \(O(√xlog x)\) established by Carneiro, Milinovich, and Soundararajan. The contribution is an alternative proof framework based on Poisson--Zeta smoothing. Establishing unconditional density lower bounds or sharper estimates within this framework remains an open research direction.
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