On the integrability of Einstein–Maxwell–(A)dS gravity in the presence of Killing vectors. (30th September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Klemm, Dietmar; Nozawa, Masato; Rabbiosi, Marco
• Is Part Of: Classical and quantum gravity. Volume 32:Number 20(2015:Oct.)
• Publication Date: 2015-09-30
• Subjects: black holes -- classical theories of gravity -- integrable equations in physics; Quantum gravity -- Periodicals; Gravitation -- Periodicals; Relativity (Physics) -- Periodicals; Space and time -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 521.1
• DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-9381

Abstract

Abstract: We study symmetry and integrability properties of four-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell gravity with a nonvanishing cosmological constant in the presence of Killing vectors. First of all, we consider stationary spacetimes, which lead, after a timelike Kaluza–Klein reduction followed by a dualization of the two vector fields, to a three-dimensional nonlinear sigma model coupled to gravity, whose target space is a noncompact version of with an isometry group. It is shown that the potential for the scalars that arises from the cosmological constant in four dimensions breaks three of the eight symmetries, corresponding to the generalized Ehlers and the two Harrison transformations. This leaves a semidirect product of a one-dimensional Heisenberg group and a translation group as residual symmetry. We show that, under the additional assumptions that the three-dimensional manifold is conformal to a product space and all fields depend only on the coordinate along the equations of motion are integrable. This generalizes the results of Leigh et al in arXiv:1403.6511 to the case where electromagnetic fields are also present. In the second part of the paper we consider the purely gravitational spacetime admitting a second Killing vector that commutes with the timelike one. We write down the resulting two-dimensional action and discuss its symmetries. If the fields depend only on one of the two coordinates, the equations of motion are again integrable, and the solution turns out to be one constructed by Krasiński many years ago.