Solution

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For the static-emitter redshift in a de Sitter patch, a stationary clock at radius satisfies . The geometry is stationary, so successive inward pulses emitted at the same radius have the same coordinate travel delay. Their coordinate arrival interval is therefore . At the central receiver , giving
For , this becomes
The pulses are redshifted at the centre. At fixed proper emission period, taking a stationary emitter toward the horizon gives , and . The inward coordinate travel delay also diverges. A stationary worldline at the horizon itself is not timelike, and the proper acceleration required to hold an emitter static diverges in this limit; the result concerns a sequence of idealized emitters with , not a stationary physical lighthouse exactly on the horizon.

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