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SUSY in the sky

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-07 v1

Abstract

Spinning particles in curved space-time can have fermionic symmetries generated by the square root of bosonic constants of motion other than the Hamiltonian. We present a general analysis of the conditions under which such new supersymmetries appear, and discuss the Poisson-Dirac algebra of the resulting set of charges, including the conditions of closure of the new algebra. An example of a new non-trivial supersymmetry is found in black-hole solutions of the Kerr-Newman type and corresponds to the Killing-Yano tensor, which plays an important role in solving the Dirac equation in these black-hole metrics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9303112,
  title  = {SUSY in the sky},
  author = {G. W. Gibbons and R. H. Rietdijk and J. W. van Holten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9303112},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28, NIKHEF-H/93-04 and DAMTP R92/43