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A Euclidean-ball one-step section

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The exact -step displacement set is

One inclusion follows because each step has -length at most one. For the other, use coordinate steps and pad with zero steps.

The closed cone generated by the spacetime increments is

Indeed, the convex hull of is the unit ball. For the standard embedding, reachability is exactly membership of the event difference in .

Finite support rules out a finite target set being a positive-radius ball in continuous , but not a metric ball on a discrete slice. Moreover, Euclidean spatial balls are themselves sections of a Lorentz cone. The obstruction here is the generated polyhedral cone, not the word “ball.”

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