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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 061102 (2007) [4 pages]

Complete Integrability of Geodesic Motion in General Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black-Hole Spacetimes

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Don N. Page1,*, David Kubizňák1,3,†, Muraari Vasudevan1,2,‡, and Pavel Krtouš3,§
1Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G7
2JLR Engineering, 111 SE Everett Mall Way, E-201, Everett, Washington 98208-3236, USA
3Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague, Czech Republic

Received 9 November 2006; published 9 February 2007

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.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.061102
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.061102
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.50.+h, 04.20.Jb

*Electronic address: don@phys.ualberta.ca

Electronic address: kubiznak@phys.ualberta.ca

Electronic address: mvasudev@phys.ualberta.ca

§Electronic address: Pavel.Krtous@mff.cuni.cz