Massless particle of any spin in static uncharged spherically symmetric curved spacetimes

Abstract

Abstract Quantum equations for massless particles of any spin in static spherically symmetric spacetimes, namely, the Minkowski, FRW and Schwarzschild spacetimes are considered. The metrics of all three are diagonal and their corresponding E2 2 and E3 3 inverse veirbein fields are identical. Thus the angular wave functions are spherical harmonics spinors corresponding to simple modes specified by orbital angular momenta and their z component. By applying consistently a procedure based on variables separation it is shown that the radial wave functions are second order ordinary differential equations sharing the same homogeneous equation though nonhomogeneous terms are different depending on the characteristic E0 0 and E1 1 of each spacetime.