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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 934, Issue -, Pages 7-38Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.019
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Killam Trust
- Czech Science Foundation [17-01625S]
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- NSERC
- Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
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In this paper we explicitly demonstrate separability of the Maxwell equations in a wide class of higher-dimensional metrics which include the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS solution as a special case. Namely, we prove such separability for the most general metric admitting the principal tensor (a non-degenerate closed conformal Killing-Yano 2-form). To this purpose we use a special ansatz for the electromagnetic potential, which we represent as a product of a (rank 2) polarization tensor with the gradient of a potential function, generalizing the ansatz recently proposed by Lunin. We show that for a special choice of the polarization tensor written in terms of the principal tensor, both the Lorenz gauge condition and the Maxwell equations reduce to a composition of mutually commuting operators acting on the potential function. A solution to both these equations can be written in terms of an eigenfunction of these commuting operators. When incorporating a multiplicative separation ansatz, it turns out that the eigenvalue equations reduce to a set of separated ordinary differential equations with the eigenvalues playing a role of separability constants. The remaining ambiguity in the separated equations is related to an identification of D - 2 polarizations of the electromagnetic field. We thus obtained a sufficiently rich set of solutions for the Maxwell equations in these spacetimes. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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