arXiv · 1110.0495
On Integrability of spinning particle motion in higher-dimensional black hole spacetimes
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. [hep-th/0611083] on complete integrability of geodesic motion in these spacetimes.
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David Kubiznak, Marco Cariglia. 2011-12-08. On Integrability of spinning particle motion in higher-dimensional black hole spacetimes. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.051104
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