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Equation 117 · Part 6 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Symbol rho_M

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},
ρM\rho_M

What this part means

rhoMo_M occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

Its job in the formula

rhoMo_M occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

The passage around this formula

…is required to pass: it vanishes as v/c →\to 0 for any spin, and it vanishes as S →\to 0 for any observer or Lorentz frame. It is bounded above by exactly 1 for the observer-transition case, since |Δ\Deltax\mathbf x| ≤\le ρM\rho_M was shown above to saturate rather than merely approach that value. Both checks are this construction’s kill criterion, run rather than assumed: had either limit failed to collapse the disagreement to zero, the atlas would have been reporting confusion between an artefact of convention and…

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