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Equation 27 · Part 1 · The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake

Symbol hatphi

ϕ^=(B⊤C−1B)+B⊤C−1y,\hat\phi = \left(B^\top C^{-1} B\right)^{+} B^\top C^{-1} y,
ϕ^\hat\phi

What this part means

the standard weighted least-squares estimate of the node potentials.

Its job in the formula

hatphi is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Where the article explains it

The model is y = Bϕ\phi + n for measurement noise n with covariance C , and the standard weighted least-squares estimate of the node potentials is

The passage around this formula

At weak field this reduces to the familiar yijy_{ij} ≈\approx (Φi\Phi_i - Φj\Phi_j)/c2c^2 for Newtonian potential Φ\Phi , exactly the quantity real fibre-linked clock comparisons already report [ 1 , 7 ] . Collect every measured edge into a vector y , one entry per link, and encode the network’s topology in an incidence matrix B : row e = (i,j) has a +1 in column i , a -1 in column j , and zero elsewhere. The model is y = Bϕ\phi + n for measurement noise n with covariance C , and the standard weighted least-squares estimate of the node potentials is ϕ^=(B⊤C−1B)+B⊤C−1y\hat\phi = \left(B^\top C^{-1} B\right)^{+} B^\top C^{-1} y. using the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse because B has a nontrivial null space: adding any constant to every node’s ϕ\phi leaves every edge…

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