Manuscript Oai365-A@1 · Oai365-A.tex · proposition · a3840e3d
Proposition: No natural pointwise signature change
Riemannian recovery does not select Lorentzian causality · lines 1048–1062 · proof included or linked
Oai365-A@1#prop:signature
For , there is no rule assigning to each positive-definite inner product on an -dimensional vector space a Lorentzian bilinear form on that same space, equivariantly under all linear coordinate changes, using alone.
Proof. At , equivariance forces the assigned form to be invariant under every orthogonal transformation. Reflection of individual coordinates forces off-diagonal entries to vanish, and coordinate permutations force all diagonal entries to agree. Thus the form is , which is definite or degenerate, not Lorentzian.