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Spacetimes with a separable Klein-Gordon equation in higher dimensions

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2016

Abstract

We study spacetimes that lead to a separable Klein-Gordon equation in a general number of dimensions. We introduce an ansatz for the metric in higher dimensions motivated by analogical work by Carter in four dimensions and find solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation.

For such a metric we solve the Einstein equations and regain the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime as one of our results. Other solutions lead to the Einstein-Kohler metric of a Euclidean signature.

Next we investigate a warped geometry of two Klein-Gordon separable spaces with a properly chosen warped factor. We show that the resulting metric leads also to a separable Klein-Gordon equation and we find the corresponding solutions.

Finally, we solve the Einstein equations for the warped geometry and obtain new solutions.