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Equation 29 · Part 4 · The Entry a Relabeling Cannot Write

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ΔEΛ(ρ)=0\Delta E_\Lambda(\rho) = 0
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What this part means

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

Its job in the formula

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

The passage around this formula

is a real number in units of energy for every fine state ρ\rho : how much the coarse description, evaluated through HcH_c pulled back along Λ\Lambda , disagrees with the fine description’s own HfH_f , for that specific state. Because expectation values determine a Hermitian operator uniquely — two Hermitian operators with the same trace against every density matrix are the same operator — the strongest statement follows at once: Δ\Delta EΛ(ρ)E_\Lambda(\rho) = 0 for every fine state ρ\rho if and only if DΛD_\Lambda = 0 as an operator identity, that is, if and only if Λ†(Hc)\Lambda^\dagger(H_c) = HfH_f exactly. Energy is preserved for every possible input under that one algebraic condition, never as a statistical…

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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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