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Published on: March 3, 2017
Integrability of spinning particle motion in higher-dimensional rotating black hole spacetimes
David Kubizňák1, Marco Cariglia
1DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom. dkubiznak@perimeterinstitute.ca
Abstract:
We study the motion of a classical spinning particle (with spin degrees of freedom described by a vector of Grassmann variables) in higher-dimensional general rotating black hole spacetimes with a cosmological constant. In all dimensions n we exhibit n bosonic functionally independent integrals of spinning particle motion, corresponding to explicit and hidden symmetries generated from the principal conformal Killing-Yano tensor. Moreover, we demonstrate that in 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-dimensional black hole spacetimes such integrals are in involution, proving the bosonic part of the motion integrable. We conjecture that the same conclusion remains valid in all higher dimensions. Our result generalizes the result of Page et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 061102 (2007)] on complete integrability of geodesic motion in these spacetimes.
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