Seminar series
Date
Mon, 22 Jun 2009
Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Dr D. Kubiznak
Organisation
Cambridge

The 4D rotating black hole described by the Kerr geometry possesses many of what was called by Chandrasekhar "miraculous" properties. Most of them can be related to the existence of a fundamental hidden symmetry called the principal conformal Killing-Yano (PCKY) tensor. In my talk I shall demonstrate that, in this context, four dimensions are not exceptional and that the (spherical horizon topology) higher-dimensional rotating black holes are very similar to their four-dimensional cousins. Namely, I shall present the most general spacetime admitting the PCKY tensor and show that is possesses the following properties: 1) it is of the algebraic type D,  2) it allows a separation of variables for the Hamilton-Jacobi, Klein-Gordon, Dirac, gravitational, and stationary string equations, 3) the geodesic motion in such a spacetime is completely integrable, 4) when the Einstein equations with the cosmological constant are imposed the metric becomes the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime. Some of these properties remain valid even when one includes the electromagnetic field.

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