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Now impose the stipulated negligible shear and work where $\Pi \ne 0$. The Hamiltonian constraint, momentum constraint and local expansion evolution giveTime differentiation of the first equation, followed by $\dot{\varphi }=N\Pi$, gives $\dot{\Pi }=-N(3H\Pi +V_{,\varphi })$. Spatial differentiation of the same equation and use of the momentum constraint givesThese are the temporal and spatial identities needed for the nonlinear curvature covector. Differentiate its definition, keeping the spatially varying lapse function:The terms proportional to ${\partial }_{i}N$ cancel. The terms $-N{\partial }_{i}H$ and $-4\pi GN\Pi {\partial }_i\varphi$ cancel by the momentum constraint, and the remaining two terms cancel by the spatial momentum identity. Thereforeto the retained gradient order. No homogeneous-lapse assumption was needed.

For linear adiabatic cosmological perturbations, expansion of the local scale and scalar field gives ${\zeta }_i={\partial }_i[\Psi +\bar{H}\delta \varphi /\bar{\Pi }]$. For nonzero spatial modes, linearizing the Hamiltonian constraint and the momentum constraint givesThusThis uses the paper's overall sign for the uniform-density curvature perturbation; the opposite overall sign is also common. For an adiabatic single-field attractor, superhorizon conservation of single-field comoving curvature allows the primordial amplitude to be transported through later epochs without following every short-scale process. This proof specifically discarded the shear contribution to the momentum constraint and assumed a usable field clock. It is not a claim that every single-field background conserves every curvature mode: growing curvature perturbation in ultra-slow-roll inflation is a non-attractor counterexample, and $\Pi =0$ makes this particular covector undefined.