Equation 115 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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Symbol X_NW
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subscript
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Collect the pieces. Three charts, the Newtonian centroid , the observer-dependent stress-energy centroid , and the canonical Newton–Wigner operator , form a genuine, well-behaved sub-atlas. Define, for any two of them evaluated on the same hypersurface ,
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