The first-order symmetry operator on gravitational perturbations in the 5D Myers–Perry spacetime with equal angular momenta

Abstract

Abstract It has been revealed that the first-order symmetry operator for the linearized Einstein equation on a vacuum spacetime can be constructed from a Killing–Yano 3-form. This might be used to construct all or part of the solutions to the field equation. In this paper, we perform a mode decomposition of a metric perturbation on the Schwarzschild spacetime and the Myers–Perry spacetime with equal angular momenta in 5 dimensions, and investigate the action of the symmetry operator on specific modes concretely. We show that, on such spacetimes, there is no transition between the modes of a metric perturbation by the action of the symmetry operator, and it ends up being the linear combination of the infinitesimal transformations of isometry.