Acceleration correction for an instantaneous boosted kink
ID: acceleration-correction-for-an-instantaneous-boosted-kink
The actual derivative of is . The omitted contribution is first order in acceleration. Its cross term with the translation velocity integrates to zero because . The square adds to the spatially integrated density, since and . Thus the instantaneous-boost effective action for a sine-Gordon kink is an adiabatic truncation rather than the exact action restricted to that accelerating configuration-space profile.
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