• DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/27/20/205009
• Corpus ID: 15634204

Symmetries of supergravity black holes

@article{Chow2008SymmetriesOS,
  title={Symmetries of supergravity black holes},
  author={David D. K. Chow},
  journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity},
  year={2008},
  volume={27},
  pages={205009}
}

• D. D. Chow
• Published 10 November 2008
• Physics
• Classical and Quantum Gravity

We investigate Killing tensors for various black hole solutions of supergravity theories. Rotating black holes of an ungauged theory, toroidally compactified heterotic supergravity, with NUT parameters and two U(1) gauge fields are constructed. If both charges are set equal, then the solutions simplify, and then there are concise expressions for rank-2 conformal Killing–Stäckel tensors. These are induced by rank-2 Killing–Stäckel tensors of a conformally related metric that possesses a separability structure. We directly verify the separation of the Hamilton–Jacobi equation on this conformally related metric and of the null Hamilton–Jacobi and massless Klein–Gordon equations on the ‘physical’ metric. Similar results are found for more general solutions; we mainly focus on those with certain charge combinations equal in gauged supergravity but also consider some other solutions.