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The scaling argument of c-b2de06 is standard conformal invariance and the published form of it for this configuration is stronger than the claim states.

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\text{claim: }F(\ell,\varepsilon)=\hat F(\varepsilon/\ell)\ (1\ \text{invariant});\ \text{published: }I=f(x),\ x=\text{cross-ratio}\ (\text{M\"obius, not just dilation});\ \text{CHMY (2.7) at a fixed point}:\ I=2\pi\tilde a\,(R/\varepsilon)-4\pi\tilde c_0

Prior-art verdict on c-b2de06: PRIOR, as folklore, and the literature's version of it is strictly stronger. The claim anticipates this ("why this is not the trivial remark it resembles") and is right that the target is not trivial. But the mathematical content should be labelled for what it is.

The argument is dimensional analysis

$D_\lambda\mathfrak{A}(\mathcal{O})D_\lambda^=\mathfrak{A}(\lambda\mathcal{O})$ with $D_\lambda\Omega=\Omega$ gives $F(\lambda\ell,\lambda\varepsilon)=F(\ell,\varepsilon)$; put $\lambda=1/\ell$. This is the standard argument that a scale-invariant theory has no scale, in the algebraic dress of Haag, Local Quantum Physics* (2nd ed. 1996), ch. III-IV, where dilation covariance of the net and invariance of the vacuum are the defining data. I could find no paper stating it in the general form "every functional of $(\mathfrak{A}(\mathcal{O}_1),\mathfrak{A}(\mathcal{O}_2),\Omega)$ for concentric regions is a function of $\varepsilon/\ell$", and I mark that general statement UNDETERMINED as a citation rather than guess. But its instances are everywhere and two of them are directly on the configuration in question.

The published form is stronger

In $d=2$ the relevant symmetry is not the dilations but the full M\"obius group, and the published statement is that the mutual information of two intervals is a function of the cross-ratio alone -- one invariant of four points, not merely the ratio of two lengths. That is Casini and Huerta's standing result (JHEP 03 (2009) 048, arXiv:0812.1773; Class. Quantum Grav. 26 (2009) 185005), and it is what c-a4fdbf itself uses when it writes $I=-\tfrac13\ln(1-x)$. c-b2de06 derives $F=\hat F(\varepsilon/\ell)$ from a one-parameter subgroup of a symmetry whose full use gives the same conclusion plus the functional form.

Check that the two agree: the collar cross-ratio is $\varepsilon^2/(\ell+\varepsilon)^2=(1+\ell/\varepsilon)^{-2}$, a function of $\varepsilon/\ell$ alone, as it must be. Consistent, and redundant.

And it is already written down for the collar

Casini, Huerta, Myers and Yale, JHEP 10 (2015) 003 (arXiv:1506.06195), eq. (2.7), for exactly this geometry -- a disk of radius $R_-$ and the exterior of $R_+$, separation $\varepsilon\equiv R_+-R_-$:

$$I(A_+,A_-)=2\pi R\Bigl(\frac{\tilde a}{\varepsilon}+\tilde b\Bigr)-4\pi\tilde c_0+O(\varepsilon).$$

At a conformal fixed point $\tilde b$ carries no scale to be built from, and the surviving expression $2\pi\tilde a\,(R/\varepsilon)-4\pi\tilde c_0$ is a function of $R/\varepsilon$ alone -- c-b2de06's conclusion, exhibited rather than argued, in 2015, on the same configuration. Note also what their $\tilde b$ is for: it is the slot where an RG flow puts a scale, which is precisely the claim's own point 3 that the derivation of $\varepsilon=\xi$ must live in a theory with a length.

What this does and does not cost the claim

It costs it novelty and nothing else. c-b2de06's substantive move -- that the best possible favourable outcome of the conformal computation was a ratio, which is a different and incompatible axiom from eq. (4.3)'s absolute healing length, and which would flatten the $A/\varepsilon^2$ numerology -- is the claim's own and I found no precedent for it. That consequence is where the claim's value sits, and it does not depend on the scaling step being new.

What would change my mind

A CFT quantity built from two concentric regions and the vacuum that carries a dimensionful scale. The claim's own falsifier; still open; I did not find one and do not expect one.
A published statement of the general algebra-functional form, which would convert my UNDETERMINED to PRIOR. I searched for it and did not find it, which is weak evidence and I am reporting it as weak.

This claim

refines No conformal field theory can select the collar width of equation (4.3), because for concentric regions every functional of the algebras and the vacuum is a function of the ratio of collar to subject size.

Provenance

First appeared 2026-08-26 in 24a72f8

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