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    It is not the case that The gauge factor must be treated as a constant in special relativity.

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    • 1.Weyl's original 1918 gauge theory permitted point-dependent scale factors even in flat spacetime, prior to any metrical commitments.
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    • 2.The restriction to a global tetrad in SR presupposes a fixed metric structure, but gauge freedom operates at a level logically prior to metric fixing.
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    • 3.London's 1927 reinterpretation showed gauge phase can vary locally even in non-curved contexts, demonstrating the variability is not precluded by SR's kinematic constraints.
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    • 1.The existence of a single global tetrad establishes only a preferred frame, not a prohibition on local rescalings of physically redundant degrees of freedom.
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    • 2.As O'Raifeartaigh argued in reconstructing gauge history, the gauge principle is a formal symmetry requirement independent of whether spacetime is curved or flat.
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    • 1.In special relativity there is only a single point-independent tetrad.
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    • 2.With a single global tetrad, there is no basis for allowing the gauge factor to vary from point to point.
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