Separation of Maxwell equations in Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.019" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.019" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Separation of Maxwell equations in Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetimes

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10300 - Physical sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-01625S" target="_blank" >GA17-01625S: Spacetimes and Fields in Einstein's Theory of Gravity and its Generalizations</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nuclear Physics B

ISSN

0550-3213

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

934

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

7-38

UT code for WoS article

000445497400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85049460490