IndisputableMonolith.Geometry.ReggeActionNonlinearCorrespondence
Local bridge from nonlinear Regge action to Recognition J-cost in log coordinates. Discrete-gravity and forcing-chain workers cite it when swapping a Regge remainder for a canonical J-quadratic plus controlled higher terms. Builds weighted J-actions, evenness along lines, Dirichlet identification of the quadratic piece, an exact canonical split, and the strongest true local replacement theorem.
claimWrite the J-cost in log coordinates as $J_{\log}(t)=\cosh(t)-1$. Form the weighted J-cost action on vertex potentials; it is even along lines. Its canonical quadratic term equals a Dirichlet energy and is nonnegative. The nonlinear Regge action splits exactly into that quadratic piece plus a remainder. Under the local geometric hypotheses, the strongest true replacement identifies the Regge action with the J-cost action up to the cubic Taylor control.
background
Recognition Science pins the cost functional by the Recognition Composition Law; T5 uniqueness forces $J(x)=(x+x^{-1})/2-1$, equivalently $\cosh(\log x)-1$. This module works that cost in additive log coordinates, so the natural local variable is a real potential increment rather than a multiplicative edge factor.
On the geometry side, discrete gravity is carried by a nonlinear Regge action on a finite-dimensional space of vertex potentials. The imported cubic Taylor module isolates the third-order remainder bound once the nonlinear Hessian is known. Functional-equation helpers from the T5 cost package supply the algebraic identities for $J$ under inversion and scaling.
The local objects are therefore: log-coordinate J-cost, a weighted action built from it, the canonical quadratic (Dirichlet) term extracted from that action, and the exact split of the nonlinear Regge action into quadratic plus remainder.
proof idea
Definition layer first: log-coordinate J-cost, its identity with $\cosh-1$, and oddness/evenness under sign flip. Weighted J-cost action is assembled next; negation and restriction to lines yield evenness of the action along lines.
The canonical quadratic term is defined and matched to a Dirichlet energy form, with nonnegativity following from that identification. The exact canonical split decomposes the nonlinear Regge action into this quadratic piece plus remainder.
Higher theorems package the local correspondence and the strongest true replacement: they combine the split with the imported cubic Taylor bound so the remainder is controlled in the finite-dimensional potential space. Structure is definitional setup plus algebraic identities, then analytic remainder control from the upstream Taylor module.
why it matters in Recognition Science
Feeds the unified forcing chain (T0–T8 from the cost foundation), where geometric discreteness and the eight-tick / $D=3$ steps need a clean Regge-to-J link rather than an ad hoc lattice action. Also imported by the Regge remainder closure audit (Track 1B-REM analytic branch) as the certificate that the nonlinear remainder is the J-cost remainder under local correspondence.
On the gravity side it supplies obligations for the physical six-tet cubic Dirichlet instance: packaging exact theorem hooks so a periodic Freudenthal torus can instantiate the physical Dirichlet model without asserting equality for free. Landmark contact is T5 J-uniqueness ($J=\cosh\circ\log-1$) and the passage from that cost to a Dirichlet quadratic suitable for discrete curvature. Closes the analytic half of the Regge–J replacement used downstream in forcing and gravity scaffolds.
scope and limits
- Does not prove global equality of full Regge and continuum Einstein–Hilbert actions.
- Does not discharge physical Dirichlet equality on the Freudenthal torus by itself.
- Does not replace the cubic Taylor bound; it consumes that analytic input.
- Does not re-prove T5 J-uniqueness; it uses the forced J-cost form.
- Does not claim continuum limit or renormalization-group fixed-point results.
used by (3)
depends on (2)
declarations in this module (19)
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def
jCostLog -
theorem
jCostLog_eq_cosh_sub_one -
theorem
jCostLog_neg -
def
weightedJCostAction -
theorem
weightedJCostAction_neg -
theorem
weightedJCostAction_along_line_even -
def
canonicalJQuadraticTerm -
theorem
canonicalJQuadraticTerm_eq_dirichlet -
theorem
canonicalJQuadraticTerm_nonneg -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_exact_canonical_split -
def
NonlinearReggeJCostLocalCorrespondence -
def
StrongestTrueReggeJCostReplacement -
theorem
strongestTrueReggeJCostReplacement_iff_localCorrespondence -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_localCorrespondence_of_cubicBound -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_localCorrespondence_of_taylorTheorem -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_localCorrespondence_of_localHessianTaylorInputs -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_localCorrespondence_of_eventuallyZero_edgeStencil_and_taylor -
theorem
strongestTrueReggeJCostReplacement_of_eventuallyZero_edgeStencil_and_taylor -
theorem
nonlinearRegge_localCorrespondence_of_remainder_identically_zero