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Lemma: Finiteness and locality

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For , . The extended action is a formal bulk functional, not an element of , but for every the bracket is a well-defined element of , and it depends on only through its restriction to .

Proof. The density of is a finite sum of products of Euler derivatives of and ; each factor inherits the compact coefficient support, so the product is a local density with compact support. For , every term pairs a derivative of with a derivative of , and the latter is compactly supported in ; the Euler derivatives of are local expressions in the fields and antifields (XII-C's and the antifield-linear terms of (eq:Sext)), so the pairing is finite and local. Dependence on the restriction to : the -derivative of enters only paired with , a direction tangent to ; all other slots of are unrestricted.

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