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What r is actually sensitive to follows from the same argument in reverse. The null space of B has dimension equal to the number of connected components of the network graph; for a connected network it is exactly one-dimensional, spanned by the all-ones vector, because B $\phi$ = 0 forces $\phi_i$ = $\phi_j$ across every edge and connectivity propagates that equality to every node. By rank–nullity, a connected tree — with exactly |V|-1 edges for |V| nodes — has an incidence matrix of full row rank, meaning that for any data whatsoever a $\phi$ exists reproducing it exactly. A tree, in other words, cannot fail to close, on any data, ever; it carries zero redundant edges and therefore zero capacity to…

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|V|-1

Equation 46 · Evolutionary Physics

The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake

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What r is actually sensitive to follows from the same argument in reverse. The null space of B has dimension equal to the number of connected components of the network graph; for a connected network it is exactly one-dimensional, spanned by the all-ones vector, because B $\phi$ = 0 forces $\phi_i$ = $\phi_j$ across every edge and connectivity propagates that equality to every node. By rank–nullity, a connected tree — with exactly |V|-1 edges for |V| nodes — has an incidence matrix of full row rank, meaning that for any data whatsoever a $\phi$ exists reproducing it exactly. A tree, in other words, cannot fail to close, on any data, ever; it carries zero redundant edges and therefore zero capacity to…

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∣V∣−1|V|-1∣V∣−1