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Exact switched bilinear and unswitched remainder

The one-oscillator mixed insertion › Exact switched bilinear and unswitched remainder · lines 2734–2793

V@1#eq:unswitchedvectors, V@1#eq:remainder, V@1#eq:missingswitch

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For the unswitched fixed-time pairing choose later than , and set

Although may jump at , it has compact spacetime support and is uniformly spatially smooth on the finite time slab. Its spatial Fourier transform decreases rapidly with all spatial derivatives. Momentum derivatives of the mass-shell exponential introduce bounded-time and polynomially controlled factors, so . This defines

It is a mode-integral definition for these specific nonsmooth tests, not an extension of the free field to arbitrary distributions.

The exact remainder is

where

Equivalently it is the quantization of . This is a switching and initial-time remainder, not a renormalization ambiguity.

If one incorrectly substitutes for , the missing contribution is exactly

Constancy of merely near does not generally make this past-sampling term vanish.

Displayed formulas in this passage

  • V@1#eq:unswitchedvectors · line 2738

  • V@1#eq:remainder · line 2763

  • V@1#eq:missingswitch · line 2785

  • unlabeled · line 2754

  • unlabeled · line 2772

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