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The problem that derivations of Hawking radiation and analogue Hawking effects trace outgoing modes back to arbitrarily high frequencies or short distances, where the regularity of the quantum state (e.g., the Unruh vacuum across the horizon) and the validity of the underlying field theory are untested; covers regularity assumptions in derivations and proposed resolutions via modified dispersion r

Alternative derivations of Hawking radiation avoid appealing to trans-Planckian frequencies.

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The Hawking spectrum's insensitivity to modified dispersion holds only under conditions such as a free-falling vacuum and adiabatic evolution.

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Alternative derivations of Hawking radiation implicitly assume the quantum state is regular across the horizon at arbitrarily short distances.

Tunneling, Euclidean, and anomaly-based derivations of Hawking radiation do not trace modes through the near-horizon exponential blueshift.

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Hawking's original derivation traces outgoing modes back to frequencies far above the Planck scale.

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