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Thermality of the Boxed Worldline in Large-r or Small-s Limits

Establish whether the classical radiation emitted by the finite-distance worldline t(x) = x(1/s − 1/r) + (2/κ) tanh^{-1}(κ x / 2 r) is thermal with temperature T = κ/(2π) in the limit of large box size r → ∞ or small maximum speed s ≪ 1 by deriving the spectrum and identifying a Planck factor.

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Background

Using the concept of peel acceleration, the authors show that their boxed trajectory has approximately constant peel in the large-r or small-s regimes, suggesting thermality analogous to the Carlitz–Willey mirror and the beta-decay electron trajectories, both associated with temperature κ/(2π).

While energy considerations and kinematic properties suggest thermality in these limits, a direct demonstration via the spectral Planck factor in the large-box regime remains analytically intractable, prompting the authors to state the thermality as a conjecture by analogy.

References

In summary, our trajectory, Eq.~(\ref{trajectory}), in the limit of $r \to \infty$ or $s\ll 1$, may exhibit thermality as given by the temperature, $T=\kappa/2\pi$, which is a conjecture by analogy with the temperatures of the moving mirror trajectory Eq.~(\ref{CW_trajectory}), and the electron trajectory of beta decay, Eq.~(\ref{diff_trajectory}).

Classical Acceleration Temperature (CAT) in a Box (2405.04553 - Mujtaba et al., 6 May 2024) in Section 4.1 (Peel Acceleration)