Inversion of hyperelliptic integrals of arbitrary genus with application
  to particle motion in General Relativity

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The description of many dynamical problems like the particle motion in higher dimensional spherically and axially symmetric space-times is reduced to the inversion of a holomorphic hyperelliptic integral. The result of the inversion is defined only locally, and is done using the algebro-geometric techniques of the standard Jacobi inversion problem and the foregoing restriction to the \(\theta\)--divisor. For a representation of the hyperelliptic functions the Klein--Weierstra{\ss} multivariable sigma function is introduced. It is shown that all parameters needed for the calculations like period matrices and Abelian images of branch points can be expressed in terms of the periods of holomorphic differentials and theta-constants. The cases of genus two and three are considered in detail. The method is exemplified by particle motion associated with a genus three hyperelliptic curve.

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General Kerr-NUT-AdS Metrics in All Dimensions

W Chen, C. Pope, H. Lu (2006)

The Kerr-AdS metric in dimension D has cohomogeneity [D/2]; the metric components depend on the radial coordinate r and [D/2] latitude variables \mu_i that are subject to the constraint \sum_i \mu_i^2=1. We find a coordinate reparameterisation in which the \mu_i variables are replaced by [D/2]-1 unconstrained coordinates y_\alpha, and having the remarkable property that the Kerr-AdS metric becomes diagonal in the coordinate differentials dy_\alpha. The coordinates r and y_\alpha now appear in a very symmetrical way in the metric, leading to an immediate generalisation in which we can introduce [D/2]-1 NUT parameters. We find that (D-5)/2 are non-trivial in odd dimensions, whilst (D-2)/2 are non-trivial in even dimensions. This gives the most general Kerr-NUT-AdS metric in \(D\) dimensions. We find that in all dimensions D\ge4 there exist discrete symmetries that involve inverting a rotation parameter through the AdS radius. These symmetries imply that Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics with over-rotating parameters are equivalent to under-rotating metrics. We also consider the BPS limit of the Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics, and thereby obtain, in odd dimensions and after Euclideanisation, new families of Einstein-Sasaki metrics.