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Plateau-switch obstruction
An exact compact-switch obstruction › A two-representative witness with a plateau switch · lines 1591–1609
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metric / coordinatescalarswitching defectconditional quantumsupport / uncompleted
schematic nested supports
near
, with near
. Derivatives of may be nonzero outside a neighborhood of .
same for both representatives
Plateau-switch obstruction. The gauge parameter is a constant translation near the entire switch support, so and both switched forced responses vanish. The unswitched coordinate compensator nevertheless changes by . A unit-integral smearing where gives a gap at most , despite near the observation.