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Proposition: No natural pointwise signature change

Riemannian recovery does not select Lorentzian causality · lines 1048–1062 · proof included or linked

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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.

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