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Local Type Iia Potential Model Detecting the RR Bianchi Sign
A smooth local potential configuration on a contractible coordinate patch that distinguishes the correct negative massless RR Bianchi sign from the inconsistent positive sign. It is a kinematic sign check only; it asserts no solution of the supergravity equations, global string background, or empirical realization.
Example
Let have length dimension and have coordinates of length dimension, orientation , flat Lorentzian metric , and constant dilaton . Set These smooth potentials give The potential components are dimensionless, while the field-strength components have dimension length. Direct differentiation yields , a nonzero five-form. Thus the plus-sign formula fails for this configuration.
Example references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , its coordinates and orientation, the flat metric and constant dilaton above, and the three smooth potentials above.
Type Iia Two Derivative Supergravity Action defines , , , and in the massless, source-free convention. This adopted postulate supplies the declared field definitions; no deductive proof of the action is used.
Type Iia RR Bianchi From Potentials: for these local potentials with , the correct identity is . Its local proof is complete and the example is conditional on this adopted massless convention.
The exterior derivative is a graded derivation and The exterior derivative squares to zero: obeys the signed product rule and .
Verification
Differentiating the potentials gives , , , , and . Since (moving past three one-forms changes sign), the definition in [A1] gives the displayed positive .
Differentiating gives The minus sign occurs when is moved across . On the other hand , so . The coordinate five-form is nonzero because these coordinate one-forms are linearly independent throughout .
The potentials are smooth on the contractible patch and , so they meet the hypotheses of [F1] and realize its negative-sign identity explicitly. This example distinguishes the erroneous plus sign; it does not assert that these fields solve the Euler–Lagrange equations.