The Unruh state for bosonic Teukolsky fields on subextreme Kerr spacetimes

TL;DR

This paper constructs the Unruh state for bosonic Teukolsky fields on Kerr black holes, demonstrating its Hadamard property both outside and inside the horizon, thus extending the understanding of quantum states in this context.

Contribution

It introduces the first construction of the Unruh state for bosonic Teukolsky fields on Kerr spacetime and proves its Hadamard property throughout the exterior and interior regions.

Findings

Unruh state is Hadamard on Kerr exterior

Unruh state is Hadamard up to the inner horizon

Extension of Hadamard property to bosonic Teukolsky fields

Abstract

We perform the quantization of Teukolsky scalars of spin $0$, $\pm 1$, and $\pm 2$ within the algebraic approach to quantum field theory. We first discuss the classical phase space, from which we subsequently construct the algebra. This sheds light on which fields are conjugates of each other. Further, we construct the Unruh state for this theory on Kerr and show that it is Hadamard on the black hole exterior and the interior up to the inner horizon. This shows not only that Hadamard states exist for this theory, but also extends the existence and Hadamard property of the Unruh state to (bosonic) Teukolsky fields on Kerr, where such a result was previously missing.