Near horizon black holes in diverse dimensions and integrable models

Abstract

The near horizon geometry of extremal rotating black hole in arbitrary dimension possesses SO(2,1)xU(n) symmetry in the special case that all n rotation parameters are equal. We consider a conformal particle associated with such a maximally symmetric configuration and derive from it a new integrable Hamiltonian mechanics with U(n) symmetry. A further reduction of the model is discussed, which is obtained by discarding cyclic variables. A variant of the Higgs oscillator and the Poschl-Teller system show up in four and five dimensions, respectively.