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Equation 117 · Part 5 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Symbol X_j^mu

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},
XjμX_j^\mu

What this part means

XjmX_j^mu occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

Its job in the formula

XjmX_j^mu 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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