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The first commutator requires quadratic composites

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XI-E@1#eq:Tkernel, XI-E@1#eq:comm

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Let denote the coordinate response kernel, with its tensor indices written . Then

For a compact scalar test put , where . The formal first commutator with a linear generator is

It has the explicit classical coefficient

The first summand is a local quadratic stress polynomial with smooth compact coefficient

Smoothness follows by transposing the composed retarded operators onto the smooth observation test.

Such local quadratic representatives are not smooth finite-rank kernels. More generally, a nonnegative local square , with positive on an open set, has infinite rank on free scalar solutions: its quadratic form is positive on the infinite-dimensional space of solution restrictions to that set. A quadratic polynomial in finitely many linear smearings has finite rank.

Thus a finite-generator presentation does not automatically contain the composites demanded by (eq:comm). This is a domain warning, not the asserted impossibility of every bimodule extension. Every algebra can be placed in larger algebraic modules; leaving is not a proof to the contrary. Nor does one summand of (eq:comm), without analysis of the whole coefficient, establish every possible on-shell nonrepresentation claim.

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