Planckian Gravitons from an Imaginary-Time Clock

Fuente: arXiv
Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Good, Michael R. R., Linder, Eric V.
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2026
Materias:
Acceso en línea:
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866913176866521088
author Good, Michael R. R.
Linder, Eric V.
author_facet Good, Michael R. R.
Linder, Eric V.
contents We present a simple derivation of the exact Planck spectrum of the quadrupole radiation from point masses moving apart nonrelativistically, essentially an analog for gravitational radiation. The standard Einstein quadrupole radiation formula gives emitted power proportional to the square of the third derivative of $x(t)^2$. In our moving-mass picture, imaginary-time periodicity appears as a product-log trajectory of a quadrupole source. In the frequency domain, the power becomes proportional to the Planck distribution, $ω^3/(e^{2πcω/κ}-1)$. The resulting Planckian graviton energy spectrum has finite total energy and finite graviton number. The emitted spectrum is purely kinematic in origin: no equilibrium, horizon, or stochastic source is assumed.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2606_01052
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Planckian Gravitons from an Imaginary-Time Clock
Good, Michael R. R.
Linder, Eric V.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We present a simple derivation of the exact Planck spectrum of the quadrupole radiation from point masses moving apart nonrelativistically, essentially an analog for gravitational radiation. The standard Einstein quadrupole radiation formula gives emitted power proportional to the square of the third derivative of $x(t)^2$. In our moving-mass picture, imaginary-time periodicity appears as a product-log trajectory of a quadrupole source. In the frequency domain, the power becomes proportional to the Planck distribution, $ω^3/(e^{2πcω/κ}-1)$. The resulting Planckian graviton energy spectrum has finite total energy and finite graviton number. The emitted spectrum is purely kinematic in origin: no equilibrium, horizon, or stochastic source is assumed.
title Planckian Gravitons from an Imaginary-Time Clock
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01052