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Theorem: Necessary compatibility and generic empty fibres

E2: plateau covariance and the coupled-jet obstruction › The invariant two-jet surface · lines 867–933 · proof included or linked

X-E-ST@1#thm:bianchi, X-E-ST@1#eq:bianchi

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Every member of satisfies

If is nonconstant, choose with . In the real smooth free-solution space

the set

is open dense. Every corresponding coupled-jet fibre is empty.

For , the particular input violates (eq:bianchi) wherever .

Proof. The exact Bianchi identity gives . Expanding its density version to second order on yields

Taking the divergence of (eq:metric-expansion) and using proves (eq:bianchi). Equivalently, it is the order-zero switch condition in (eq:noether). Thus this condition follows from the exact Noether identity, not from gauge fixing.

The pointwise expression is a continuous quadratic polynomial in the first scalar jet. It is not identically zero on : choose a free solution with and . Such a solution follows from smooth Cauchy data, or from when , with the massless limit . Its mixed stress has diagonal entries , so contraction with the nonzero covector is nonzero. For any , at least one component of the expression at is a polynomial in with nonzero quadratic coefficient. Its zeros have empty interior. Arbitrarily small give a violation. Continuity gives openness.

For ,

and the same diagonal calculation proves the final claim.

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