Symplectic mechanics of relativistic spinning compact bodies I.: Covariant foundations and integrability around black holes

arXiv2210.03866MaRDI QIDQ6508076FDOQ6508076

Authors: Paul Ramond 

Abstract: This is the first part of a series of work aiming at settling the issue of integrability, or lack thereof, for spinning particles around black hole spacetimes in general relativity. In this article, we lay the analytic foundations of this program, and present a Hamiltonian formulation of the evolution equations for a dipolar particle moving in a background spacetime. We explicitly construct symplectic coordinates in the phase space, discuss their physical meaning for the rotational degrees of freedom, and prove that the spin supplementary condition defines a sub-manifold that is invariant under the flow of the Hamiltonian. We then apply this formalism to the Schwarzschild spacetime, where we prove that the system is integrable in the sense of Liouville, thanks to the Killing vectors and the Killing-Yano tensor that exist for the Schwarzschild metric.

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