Equation 63 · The Entry a Relabeling Cannot Write
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an exact operator identity, not an approximation valid in some limit: the ledger for a system-only description of a system-plus-bath is precisely the bath’s own energy plus the coupling energy between the two, nothing more and nothing less. = [] for any joint state .
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