The quantization of Proca fields on globally hyperbolic spacetimes: Hadamard states and M{\o}ller operators

TL;DR

This paper advances the algebraic quantization of the Proca field in curved spacetimes by constructing Møller isomorphisms that preserve Hadamard states, enabling their transfer between different spacetime geometries.

Contribution

It extends previous work by constructing Møller *-isomorphisms for Proca fields on globally hyperbolic spacetimes and shows these preserve Hadamard states, facilitating state transfer across spacetimes.

Findings

Møller *-isomorphisms preserve the Hadamard property.

Hadamard states can be transferred between spacetimes via these isomorphisms.

The wavefront set and Klein-Gordon form definitions of Hadamard states are nearly equivalent.

Abstract

This paper deals with several issues concerning the algebraic quantization of the real Proca field in a globally hyperbolic spacetime and the definition and existence of Hadamard states for that field. In particular, extending previous work, we construct the so-called M\o ller $*$-isomorphism between the algebras of Proca observables on paracausally related spacetimes, proving that the pullback of these isomorphisms preserves the Hadamard property of corresponding quasifree states defined on the two spacetimes. Then, we pull-back a natural Hadamard state constructed on ultrastatic spacetimes of bounded geometry, along this $*$-isomorphism, to obtain a Hadamard state on a general globally hyperbolic spacetime. We conclude the paper, by comparing the definition of a Hadamard state, here given in terms of wavefront set, with the one proposed by Fewster and Pfenning, which makes use of a supplementary Klein-Gordon Hadamard form. We establish an (almost) complete equivalence of the two definitions.