Equation 24 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol D_rm det

D_{\rm det}(x,y) = \frac12 \int_0^\infty d\Omega\, \big| p_x(\Omega) - p_y(\Omega) \big|.

D_{\rm det}

What this part means

a map from pairs of “treaty configurations” — worldline, field state, coupling type, and the gap/switching pair used to build the spectrum — to the real interval [0,1].

Its job in the formula

$D_r$ m det is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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$D_{\rm det}$ is a map from pairs of “treaty configurations” — worldline, field state, coupling type, and the gap/switching pair used to build the spectrum — to the real interval [0,1] ; it carries no physical units, because it is built entirely from normalized probability densities over $\Omega$ , whose own units of inverse time cancel between numerator and denominator of every term in the integral.

The passage around this formula

…as the total variation distance between the two probability densities: $D_{\rm det}(x,y) = \frac12 \int_0^\infty d\Omega\, \big| p_x(\Omega) - p_y(\Omega) \big|$ . This is the object this article is actually about, so its bookkeeping has to be stated in full before any number is produced. $D_{\rm det}$ is a map from pairs of “treaty configurations” — worldline, field state, coupling type, and the gap/switching pair used to build the spectrum — to the real interval [0,1] ; it carries no physical units, because it is built entirely from normalized probability densities over $\Omega$ ,…

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Sources cited in the article section

[9] Asymptotic States of Accelerated Detectors and Universality of the Unruh Effect ↗

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