Manuscript En08-A@1 · En08-A.tex · section · c688d76d
A Euclidean-ball one-step section
Countermodels to cone selection › A Euclidean-ball one-step section · lines 654–682
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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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