Solving parallel transport equations in the higher-dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes
- Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G7 (Canada)
We obtain and study the equations describing the parallel transport of orthonormal frames along geodesics in a spacetime admitting a nondegenerate, principal, conformal Killing-Yano tensor h. We demonstrate that the operator F, obtained by a projection of h to a subspace orthogonal to the velocity, has in a generic case eigenspaces of dimension not greater than 2. Each of these eigenspaces is independently parallel propagated. This allows one to reduce the parallel transport equations to a set of first order, ordinary, differential equations for the angles of rotation in the 2D eigenspaces. General analysis is illustrated by studying the equations of the parallel transport in the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS metrics. Examples of three-, four-, and five-dimensional Kerr-NUT-(A)dS are considered, and it is shown that the obtained first order equations can be solved by a separation of variables.
- OSTI ID:
- 21250392
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 78, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024042; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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