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The characterization of Hadamard states in terms of a specific form of the wavefront set of their two-point functions has been developed some years ago by Radzikowski for scalar fields on a four-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime, and initiated a major progress in the understanding of Hadamard states and the further development of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In the present work, the characterization of Hadamard states through a particular form of the wavefront set of their two-point functions will be generalized from scalar fields to vector fields (sections in a vector bundle) which are subject to a wave-equation and are quantized so as to fulfill the covariant canonical commutation relations, or which obey a Dirac equation and are quantized according to the covariant anti-commutation relations, in any globally hyperbolic spacetime having dimension three or higher. In proving this result, a gap which is present in the published proof for the scalar field case will be removed. Moreover we determine the short-distance scaling limits of Hadamard states for vector-bundle valued fields, finding them to coincide with the corresponding flat-space, massless vacuum states.
