Large separation does not impose a Kaluza-Klein low-energy limit

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A pointlike pulse can contain frequencies above the compactification gap even when its travel time and distance greatly exceed the circle size. Its retarded circle-compactified massless propagator can resolve winding images and massive-mode oscillations. Suppressing those modes requires low-frequency or long-wavelength sources/measurements, or suitable smearing; mere coordinate separation is not that restriction. The static Green function across a circle compactification gives a precise long-distance zero-mode limit without this ambiguity.

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