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Killing-Yano tensors, rank-2 Killing tensors, and conserved quantities in higher dimensions

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/004

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large extra dimensions; classical theories of gravity; black holes

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From the metric and one Killing-Yano tensor of rank D-2 in any D-dimensional spacetime with such a principal Killing-Yano tensor, we show how to generate k = [(D + 1)/2] Killing-Yano tensors, of rank D-2j for all 0 <= j <= k-1, and k rank-2 Killing tensors, giving k constants of geodesic motion that are in involution. For the example of the Kerr-NUT-AdS spacetime (hep-th/0604125) with its principal Killing-Yano tensor (gr-qc/0610144), these constants and the constants from the k Killing vectors give D independent constants in involution, making the geodesic motion completely integrable (hep-th/0611083). The constants of motion are also related to the constants recently obtained in the separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations (hep-th/0611245).

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