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 (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.
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Don N
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Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Kubiznák
David
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Vasudevan
Muraari
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Krtous
Pavel
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