Dear members of the acceleration radiation community:

There has been a delay in settling on and setting up a suitable 
mechanism for exchanging our communications.  However, the first 
presentation is available, and I'm making it available to you 
now.

It is by George Matsas, and it concerns the issue of whether 
uniformly accelerated charges radiate for inertial observers but 
not for Rindler ones.  It includes an argument that an 
accelerated charge can be regarded as an Unruh-DeWitt detector in 
the limit of zero splitting of the internal energy levels.

The structure of the contribution is the one I strongly recommend 
for all those that contain significantly much mathematical 
notation: (1) A fairly brief and qualitative summary in a pure 
ASCII (.txt) file, suitable for e-mailing.  (2) A more technical 
treatment in TeX (or your favorite mathematical word processor) 
compiled to PDF; this is NOT to be sent as an attachment to the 
e-mail message, but rather placed on the web with its URL link 
included in the message.  (This will cut down on e-mail traffic 
and disk usage.)

To comment you have several options, depending on your personal 
situation:

1.  Make a private e-mail reply to George.

2.  Make a public reply, which (until I get a permanent system 
set up and send new instructions) you should e-mail to me so that 
I can redistribute it.  If it is of sufficient magnitude, please 
split it into two parts as described above. Then you have two 
further alternatives:

2a) Post the PDF on your own web page or site and include the URL 
in your text message.

2b) Send the PDF to me to be put on my web site.

George's text message is attached.  Let's get to work!


Stephen A. Fulling
Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
77843-3368  USA
fulling@math.tamu.edu