Complete integrability of geodesic motion in general higher-dimensional rotating black-hole spacetimes

We explicitly exhibit n-1=[D/2]-1 constants of motion for geodesics in the general D-dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS rotating black hole spacetime, arising from contractions of even powers of the 2-form obtained by contracting the geodesic velocity with the dual of the contraction of the velocity with the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2007-02, Vol.98 (6), p.061102-061102, Article 061102
Hauptverfasser: Page, Don N, Kubiznák, David, Vasudevan, Muraari, Krtous, Pavel
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We explicitly exhibit n-1=[D/2]-1 constants of motion for geodesics in the general D-dimensional Kerr-NUT-AdS rotating black hole spacetime, arising from contractions of even powers of the 2-form obtained by contracting the geodesic velocity with the dual of the contraction of the velocity with the (D-2)-dimensional Killing-Yano tensor. These constants of motion are functionally independent of each other and of the D-n+1 constants of motion that arise from the metric and the D-n=[(D+1)/2] Killing vectors, making a total of D independent constants of motion in all dimensions D. The Poisson brackets of all pairs of these D constants are zero, so geodesic motion in these spacetimes is completely integrable.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.98.061102