reggeActionFirstVariationInput_of_incidenceBookkeeping
plain-language theorem explainer
Packages global incidence bookkeeping into the named first-variation input for the nonlinear Regge action on a consistent 3D triangulation at a flat configuration. Cited by anyone discharging criticality of the flat conformal potential via Schläfli cancellation. Thin assembly: nested local angle/length chain-rule packages plus the bookkeeping-derived cancellation feed the local-angles constructor.
Claim. Let $K$ be a 3D triangulation with consistent incidence and a flat configuration. Suppose the global incidence bookkeeping identity holds for the local dihedral directional-derivative package obtained by chaining squared-edge and length derivatives from flatness: the edge-sum of hinge measure times deficit directional derivative equals minus the double sum over tetrahedra and faces of $\sqrt{\mathrm{sqEdge}}\cdot$ angle derivative. Then one obtains the named first-variation input asserting that the Regge action is critical at the zero conformal potential.
background
This module targets vanishing of the first variation of the full nonlinear Regge action at the flat conformal potential. The geometric engine is Schläfli cancellation plus zero deficit; the file records the exact analytic statement and the named inputs needed until the derivative calculation is fully expanded from closed-form local Schläfli identities.
ConformalSchlaefliIncidenceBookkeeping is the global incidence identity that turns the edge-indexed deficit variation into a sum of local tetrahedral Schläfli sums: for every vertex potential $\eta$, the sum over edges of hinge measure (at zero potential) times the deficit directional derivative equals minus the double sum over tetrahedra and their six faces of $\sqrt{\mathrm{sqEdge}}\cdot A.\mathrm{angleDeriv}$. The structure ReggeActionFirstVariationInput packages the intended conclusion ReggeActionCriticalAtZero.
Upstream, local angle derivatives at flat configurations are assembled into squared-edge then length chain-rule packages, then into a local dihedral directional-derivative package. The theorem conformalSchlaefliCancellation_of_lengthChain_of_bookkeeping converts bookkeeping plus that package into the cancellation hypothesis required by the local-angles constructor.
proof idea
One-line assembly definition. It calls reggeActionFirstVariationInput_of_localAngles on $K$, incidence, and flatness, supplying two arguments built from the same nested chain:
- the local dihedral directional-derivative package obtained by
localDihedralDirectionalDerivativePackage_of_lengthChainoflocalAngleLengthChainRulePackage_of_sqEdgeoflocalAngleSqEdgeChainRulePackage_of_flat; - the cancellation proof
conformalSchlaefliCancellation_of_lengthChain_of_bookkeepingapplied to the length-chain package and the given bookkeeping hypothesishBook.
No new analysis is performed; the def only wires bookkeeping into the already-named local-angles input constructor.
why it matters
Sits on the critical path to the module target: vanishing first variation of the nonlinear Regge action at the flat conformal potential. Downstream, reggeActionFirstVariationInput_of_edgeSlotBookkeeping reduces edge-slot bookkeeping to this incidence form, so every coarser bookkeeping route funnels through here before the criticality structure is obtained.
In the Recognition framework this is the discrete-geometry half of the $D=3$ story (forcing chain T8): Regge calculus on a 3D triangulation, with Schläfli identities supplying the cancellation that makes the flat conformal background critical. The module doc states the intended lower-level proof shape explicitly: differentiate hinge-length and local dihedral factors, use zero deficit on the hinge term, then global Schläfli on the dihedral term. This definition closes the incidence-bookkeeping gate on that path.
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