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Proposition: Evaluation descends to the action quotient
Locked kinematics, action, and contacts › The exact contact evaluator · lines 655–677 · proof included or linked
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The response map
is well defined. Its image is precisely
Proof. The differentiated coefficient of a total derivative has an overall factor , which vanishes on . A genuine tensor identity vanishes before and after differentiation. Thus equivalent density representatives have identical responses.
Raw coverage gives every allowed response as a constant combination of the , and every such combination comes from allowed raw contacts.
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