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Equation 117 · Part 11 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Numerator: big|X_i^mu(u,Sigma) - X_j^mu(u,Sigma)big|_Sigma

δij(u,Σ)=∣Xiμ(u,Σ)−Xjμ(u,Σ)∣ΣρM,\delta_{ij}(u,\Sigma) = \frac{\big|X_i^\mu(u,\Sigma) - X_j^\mu(u,\Sigma)\big|_\Sigma}{\rho_M},
∣Xiμ(u,Σ)−Xjμ(u,Σ)∣Σ\big|X_i^\mu(u,\Sigma) - X_j^\mu(u,\Sigma)\big|_\Sigma

What this part means

The complete quantity above the fraction bar.

Its job in the formula

big|XimX_i^mu(u,Sigma) - XjmX_j^mu(u,Sigma)big|_Sigma occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

Collect the pieces. Three charts, the Newtonian centroid RN\mathbf R_N , the observer-dependent stress-energy centroid Xμ(u,Σ)X^\mu(u,\Sigma) , and the canonical Newton–Wigner operator XNW\mathbf X_{\mathrm{NW}} , form a genuine, well-behaved sub-atlas. Define, for any two of them evaluated on the same hypersurface Σ\Sigma , δij(u,Σ)=∣Xiμ(u,Σ)−Xjμ(u,Σ)∣ΣρM\delta_{ij}(u,\Sigma) = \frac{\big|X_i^\mu(u,\Sigma) - X_j^\mu(u,\Sigma)\big|_\Sigma}{\rho_M}. the proper spatial separation within Σ\Sigma between the two charts’ answers, normalized by the spin-to-mass length fixed in the first section. δij\delta_{ij} is dimensionless by construction, symmetric, zero exactly when the two charts coincide, and it has now been checked, not merely asserted, in both directions this kind of construction is required to pass: it…

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Learn the underlying idea

A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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