Shell Geometry from Stationary Detector Thermality in Static KMS Spacetimes

Mathematical physics / QFT in curved spacetime

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Full click-record statistics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector define two codimension-one shells in static KMS spacetimes. In Schwarzschild the shell pair determines the mass parameter via a self-calibratin…
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April 7, 2026

General Relativity and Gravitation Submitted 122 Theorems Mathematical physics / QFT in curved spacetime

Abstract

Full click-record statistics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector define two codimension-one shells in static KMS spacetimes. In Schwarzschild the shell pair determines the mass parameter via a self-calibrating two-mode ratio law.

Keywords: Unruh-DeWitt detectors, KMS states, black hole thermodynamics, symbolic dynamics, Hawking radiation

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