The separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the Kerr metric

DOI10.1017/S033427000001119XMaRDI QIDQ4702016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. E. Prince, J. E. Aldridge, S. E. Godfrey, G. B. Byrnes

Publication date 2 July 2000

Published in The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s033427000001119x

zbMATH Keywords

completely integrable geodesic equationHamilton-Jacobi equationKerr metricLagrangianSchwarzschild space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Black holes (83C57)

Review text

This paper is a continuation of a recent work by the same authors [J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 32, 827-844 (1999; Zbl 0932.37045)] where they proved that a completely integrable geodesic equation has a fully separable Hamilton-Jacobi equation if and only if the Lagrangian is a composite of the evolutive first integrals. In this paper, they focus on the separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the Kerr metric in general relativity and based on their above stated theorem. They explain the relationship of the quadratic integrals with the residual symmetry group after reduction by \(SO(3)\) of the Schwarzschild evolution space. Finally, the authors propose some open questions and relations with known results on this topic.

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