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IndisputableMonolith.Geometry.ReggeActionCubicTaylorBound

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Packages the exact finite-dimensional cubic Taylor estimate for the canonical nonlinear Regge remainder near a flat configuration. Gravity and discrete-geometry workers cite it when controlling the o(|v|^2) error in the Regge/J-cost bridge. The argument specializes third-order Taylor and line-potential bounds to jet inputs already fixed by the Hessian interface.

claimNear a flat configuration the canonical Regge remainder $R$ admits a third-order Taylor bound: the difference between $R(v)$ and its jet of order two is $O(\|v\|^3)$ on a neighborhood of the origin in the potential space, with explicit control along line potentials $t\mapsto tv$ for $t\in[0,1]$.

background

Recognition Gravity treats the continuum limit of a discrete Regge action on a triangulation. The weak-field quadratic bridge is already closed; the remaining analytic work is a local nonlinear expansion of the full Regge action about a flat potential. The canonical remainder is that nonlinear piece after the flat value and the quadratic (Dirichlet/J-cost) form have been subtracted.

The imported Hessian module isolates the hard second-derivative identity: the second directional derivative of the nonlinear action at the flat potential must equal the canonical incidence Hessian. Once that identity is in hand, a standard finite-dimensional Taylor theorem supplies the cubic remainder bound needed for local correspondence.

This module therefore sits between the Hessian calculation and the nonlinear target statement. It does not re-prove the Hessian; it consumes jet regularity and second-derivative data and returns a uniform $O(|v|^3)$ estimate, including elementary comparison lemmas for line potentials on the unit interval.

proof idea

The module is theorem-shaped rather than a pure definition dump. Core objects include a cubic Taylor theorem for the nonlinear Regge remainder, an equivalence between that theorem and a local bound form, and constructors that discharge the theorem from remainder jet inputs or from an identically zero remainder.

Supporting pieces handle smoothness of the canonical remainder at a flat configuration, line-potential normalization and scaling ($t\mapsto tv$), and a norm bound for line potentials with $t\in[0,1]$. The cubic estimate along those rays is packaged as an explicit target, then lifted to a neighborhood statement via the usual one-variable Taylor remainder on each line, combined with continuity of the third derivative (or jet data) at the origin.

why it matters in Recognition Science

The first Recognition Gravity paper closes only the weak-field quadratic bridge between Regge and summed J-cost. The nonlinear correspondence module states the follow-on local target: near a flat configuration the full nonlinear Regge action equals its flat value plus the canonical J/Dirichlet quadratic plus a controlled remainder. This cubic Taylor bound is exactly the analytic input that target needs.

It is also imported by the lane-local Regge remainder closure audit (Track 1B-REM), which wants a buildable certificate for the analytic-remainder branch separate from the finite-Freudenthal combinatorics path. In the broader forcing picture the estimate is geometry-side scaffolding for matching discrete curvature action to the RS cost calculus, not a new forcing step (T0-T8), but a necessary error control once the Hessian identity is available.

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