Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 061102 (2007) [4 pages]Complete Integrability of Geodesic Motion in General Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black-Hole SpacetimesReceived 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
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