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Switching-region audit
Sign, coefficient, and switching audit › Integration by parts changes a switched density · lines 2656–2675
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metric / coordinatescalarswitching defectconditional quantumsupport / uncompleted
switching-region term
gives
discard a total derivative without the switch correction
near , yet the retarded switching term supplies the nonzero defect.
An observation plateau does not imply causal-region switch constancy. The Action Ward Identity is not a proved diffeomorphism Ward identity for this composite.
Switching-region audit. Compact switching produces explicit terms in the local Noether identity and when densities are changed by total derivatives. The plateau witness retains a retarded switching contribution even though the pointwise plateau term vanishes near the observation. These identities do not authorize dropping switching terms from a proposed quantum Ward identity.