The Infraparticle Edge
Abstract
I derive the charged-particle spectral edge from the quantum instrument of soft QED. I use two projections of that instrument. Tracing over unresolved photons gives the reduced hard-sector channel. Pushing the outcomes to total energy gives the inclusive energy distribution. Its Laplace exponent is fixed by the diagonal soft intensity. For , I obtain . I retain the coherence kernel and derive hard-sector dephasing and the spectral edge from two contractions of one soft environment. The diagonal coefficient fixes the endpoint exponent, while fixes the dephasing exponent between hard alternatives. I then classify infrared energy marginals, derive the finite-resolution residue , prove stability under infrared-integrable perturbations, and separate the bath exponent from a hard threshold exponent. For the one-electron spectral measure, the hard threshold factor is regular. The resulting edge has the local power law of a gapped unparticle spectrum, while its exponent remains a response coefficient of the unresolved photon sector.
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@article{arxiv.2607.13001,
title = {The Infraparticle Edge},
author = {Soo-Jong Rey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13001},
year = {2026}
}
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18 pages; 1 figure