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We characterise the homogeneous and isotropic gauge invariant and quasifree states for free Dirac quantum fields on Robertson–Walker spacetimes. Using this characterisation, we construct adiabatic vacuum states of order n corresponding to some Cauchy surface. It is demonstrated that any two such states (of sufficiently high order) are locally quasi-equivalent. We give a microlocal characterisation of spinor Hadamard states and we show that this agrees with the usual characterisation of such states in terms of the singular behaviour of their associated twopoint functions. The polarisation set of these twopoint functions is determined and found to have a natural geometric form. We finally prove that our adiabatic states of infinite order are Hadamard, and that those of order n correspond, in some sense, to a truncated Hadamard series and therefore allow for a point splitting renormalisation of the expected stress-energy tensor.
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Received: 30 June 1999 / Accepted: 21 September 2000
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Hollands, S. The Hadamard Condition for Dirac Fields and Adiabatic States on Robertson–Walker Spacetimes. Commun. Math. Phys. 216, 635–661 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200000350
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200000350