Equation 46 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol chi

\chi(\tau)

\chi

What this part means

all defined intrinsically along each worldline.

Its job in the formula

chi is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Where the article explains it

$D_{\rm det}$ also does not change under a Poincaré transformation applied identically to both worldlines and to the field vacuum together, since W is Poincaré invariant and $\tau$ , $\Omega$ , and $\chi$ are all defined intrinsically along each worldline.

The passage around this formula

…time instead of proper time would inject that redshift directly into $D_{\rm det}$ as a spurious “particle disagreement” that is really just two clocks running at different rates. The fourth is the switching profile $\chi(\tau)$ : its total duration and its smoothness both leave fingerprints in $\mathcal F_x(\Omega)$ that have nothing to do with the trajectory, as the next two sections show in detail.

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Sources cited in the surrounding passage

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

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