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The Unruh state for bosonic Teukolsky fields on subextreme Kerr spacetimes

Mathematical Physics 2026-02-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We perform the quantization of Teukolsky scalars of spin 00, ±1\pm 1, and ±2\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.

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@article{arxiv.2602.09796,
  title  = {The Unruh state for bosonic Teukolsky fields on subextreme Kerr spacetimes},
  author = {Dietrich Häfner and Christiane K. M. Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09796},
  year   = {2026}
}

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94 pages, 5 figures