Singularities of Dirac-Coulomb propagators

Abstract

In this paper we study singularities of propagators and $N$-point functions for Dirac fields in a Coulomb potential, possibly with a $t$-dependent smooth part for $|t|<T<\infty$. We show that the in and out Dirac-Coulomb vacua are Hadamard states for $r\ne 0$. Furthermore, we prove that the relative charge density of any two Hadamard states is well-defined as a locally integrable function including near $r=0$. The results are based on a diffractive propagation of singularities theorem for the Dirac-Coulomb system previously obtained by the first and third authors, generalized here to the case of $t$-dependent potentials.