Coordinate minors and functional dependence #
Two phase covectors are dependent exactly when all of their two-by-two coordinate minors vanish.
This file proves the direction needed for nonintegrability. It converts the scalar analytic
identities naturally produced by coefficient induction into failure of the challenge's
LinearIndependent predicate.
A two-by-two coordinate minor of a pair of phase covectors.
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A differentiable scalar function of an observable has zero coordinate minors with that observable.
A phase covector vanishing on all four coordinate vectors is zero.
A pair consisting of a vector and one of its scalar multiples is not linearly independent.
If every coordinate minor vanishes, two concrete phase covectors are dependent.
One nonzero coordinate minor certifies linear independence of a pair of covectors.
For a pair of concrete phase covectors, dependence is equivalent to vanishing of all coordinate minors.
Coordinate-minor formulation for differentials of two observables.