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-Kähler 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.
- Received 20 October 2015
- Publisher error corrected 29 January 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024053
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Corrections
29 January 2016