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Auxiliary negative vector versus physical quotient

Physical scope

A hypothetical exact comparison between an indefinite auxiliary four-polarization vector and normalized states in the positive transverse free-photon model; no measurement, negative probability, or empirical event is asserted.

Statement

Assume Countable Choice The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω) and the positive transverse free-photon model of Two physical photon degrees and positive free dynamics. Let K=L2(R3,d3k;C4) carry the indefinite form [ϵ,δ]=∫ϵ†diag⁡(−1,1,1,1)δ d3k. For nonzero k, put n=k/∣k∣ and define the subsidiary subspace by K0={ϵ:−ϵ0+n⋅ϵ=0 almost everywhere}. Fix a wave-number scale κ>0 in m−1 under Quantum field quantities and compatible SI normalizations, and let Ω be the momentum ball of radius κ/4 centered at κ(0,0,1). By A smooth bump between concentric Euclidean balls, translate a smooth bump b that equals one on the concentric ball of radius κ/8 and has support in Ω. Set g=b/∥b∥2, so g∈Cc∞(Ω) and ∥g∥2=1. The auxiliary timelike wavepacket ϵaux(k)=g(k)(1,0,0,0) has [ϵaux,ϵaux]=−1 but is not in K0. By contrast, a normalized transverse wavepacket in HT represents a positive physical one-photon state. Therefore the negative auxiliary norm is not a negative Born probability.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The exact positive transverse free model, Countable Choice, and the inspected draft null-quotient carrier at its conditional interface.

[A1]

Two physical photon degrees and positive free dynamics: the physical one-photon space is the positive transverse Hilbert space, and the auxiliary indefinite four-polarization space is not the physical state space.

[A2]

Countable Choice is the choice strength of the QFT Fock construction. The Axiom of Countable Choice (ACω)

[F1]

Every concentric pair of Euclidean balls with radii 0<r<R admits a smooth compactly supported bump equal to one on the smaller closed ball. A smooth bump between concentric Euclidean balls

[F2]

Quantum field quantities and compatible SI normalizations: spatial wave vectors have units m−1 and use length coordinates x0=ct.

[L1]

Lorenz auxiliary subsidiary null quotient (draft carrier with a current ready Step 1 record for its item hash; this is readiness, not independent approval): on the subsidiary subspace K0, the map Tϵ=ϵ−nϵ0 is bounded and onto HT, with [ϵ,δ]η=⟨Tϵ,Tδ⟩2; its radical is N={b(k)(1,n):b∈L2}. The quotient K0/N is a positive Hilbert space isometric to HT.

Proof

Given: [A1]–[A2], [F1]–[F2], and [L1].

1.1A1F1F2algebra

The scale κ in [F2] is a positive wave number. Apply [F1] with radii κ/8 and κ/4, then translate the result to the center of Ω. Translation preserves smoothness and support, so b is smooth, bounded, and compactly supported in Ω; it equals one on an inner ball of positive volume. Thus 0<∥b∥2<∞ and g=b/∥b∥2 is the stated normalized wavepacket. Since the timelike coordinate has metric coefficient −1, direct substitution gives [ϵaux,ϵaux]=∫−∣g(k)∣2 d3k=−1. On the support of g, the subsidiary expression is −ϵaux0+n⋅ϵaux=−g, which is nonzero on the inner ball where b=1, a set of positive measure. Hence ϵaux∉K0 and it has no class in the physical quotient.

1.2A1A2L1givenalgebra

Countable Choice [A2] is carried by the selected Fock model. For every k∈Ω, k3≥3κ/4 and ∣k1∣≤κ/4, so ∣n1∣=∣k1∣/∣k∣≤1/3. Hence ∥PT(k)e1∥2=1−∣n1∣2≥8/9 on Ω. The vector u(k)=PT(k)e1g(k) is transverse and satisfies ∥u∥HT2=∫Ω∥PTe1∥2∣g∣2d3k≥89∥g∥22=89>0. Thus normalizing it gives ∥u∥HT=1. For every ϵ∈K0, [L1] gives [ϵ,ϵ]=∥Tϵ∥HT2≥0, and quotienting by N removes precisely the zero-norm radical. The physical wavepacket therefore has positive Hilbert norm, whereas the auxiliary negative norm belongs to no physical state.

2.1A1step 1.2given∎

The comparison is a hypothetical calculation in the adopted free model. It supplies no observed event, measurement outcome, or probability assignment to an auxiliary vector; the Born interpretation applies only to normalized states and supplied measurements in the physical model.

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