Frame eversion and contextual geometric rigidity
Abstract
We prove rigidity results describing contextually-constrained maps defined on Grassmannians and manifolds of ordered independent line tuples in finite-dimensional vector or Hilbert spaces. One statement in the spirit of the Fundamental Theorem of Projective Geometry classifies maps between full Grassmannians of two -dimensional Hilbert spaces, , preserving dimension and lattice operations for pairs with commuting orthogonal projections, as precisely those induced by semilinear injections unique up to scaling. In a different but related direction, denote the manifolds of ordered orthogonal (linearly-independent) -tuples of lines in an -dimensional Hilbert space by (respectively ) and, for partitions of the set , call two tuples -linked if the spans along -blocks agree. A Wigner-style rigidity theorem proves that the symmetric maps , respecting -linkage are precisely those induced by semilinear injections, hence by linear or conjugate-linear maps if also assumed measurable. On the other hand, in the -defined analogue the only other possibility is a qualitatively new type of purely-contextual-global symmetry transforming a tuple of lines into .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.11455,
title = {Frame eversion and contextual geometric rigidity},
author = {Alexandru Chirvasitu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11455},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
v2 adds Remark 1.11 and Lemma 1.12 and expands the proof of Theorem 1.10; 11 pages + references