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Retarded field of a uniformly accelerated source in non-local scalar field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the retarded field sourced by a uniformly accelerated particle in a non-local scalar field theory. While the presence of non-locality regularizes the field at the location of the source, we also show that Lorentz-invariant non-local field theories are particularly sensitive to the somewhat unphysical assumption of uniform acceleration, leading to logarithmic divergences on the acceleration horizon. Analytic properties of the non-local retarded Green function indicate that the divergences can be removed by placing appropriate sources on the acceleration horizon in the asymptotic past.

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@article{arxiv.2102.07843,
  title  = {Retarded field of a uniformly accelerated source in non-local scalar field theory},
  author = {Ivan Kolář and Jens Boos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07843},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome!