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Equation 51 · Part 5 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing

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ρrad(g)=Urad(g) ρrad(0) Urad(g)†,\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g) = U_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)\,\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(0)\,U_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)^\dagger,
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What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

The covariance equation from the previous section is the formal cost of that fact. Because V commutes with the group action, the radiation’s reduced state along the true heading is a rotated copy of the same state at heading zero, ρrad(g)=Urad(g) ρrad(0) Urad(g)†\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g) = U_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)\,\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(0)\,U_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)^\dagger. which is a genuine constraint, not a simplifying choice: FQF_Q[ρrad(g)\rho_{\mathrm{rad}}(g)] is therefore identical at every point along this orbit, since the quantum Fisher information depends only on the local geometry of the state family under the generator, and a rotated copy of the same family has the same local geometry everywhere. tG(δ)t_G(\delta) does not depend on which heading is being estimated. That is the covariance check this construction owes…

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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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