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    It is not the case that Élie Cartan demonstrated in 1934 that the axiom of free mobility—the precise formal content of Weyl's postulate—is insufficient to exclude non-quadratic Finsler norms from physical geometry.

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    • 1.Physical geometry's empirical success with Riemannian metrics suggests free mobility's practical content excludes Finsler structures.
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    • 2.Cartan's formal result may hold mathematically while remaining physically irrelevant due to unobservable higher-order deviations.
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    • 3.Free mobility might implicitly contain symmetry constraints Cartan didn't fully formalize, making his conclusion incomplete.
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    • 1.Cartan's 1934 work rigorously proved free mobility alone permits non-quadratic metric structures, establishing mathematical fact.
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    • 2.Weyl's postulate, though elegant, makes implicit assumptions beyond free mobility that require independent justification.
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    • 3.Finsler geometry's mathematical consistency shows quadratic restriction isn't logically forced by mobility principles alone.
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