Hidden Symmetries of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes

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In this thesis we study higher-dimensional rotating black holes.

• Such black holes are widely discussed in string theory and brane-world models at present.
• We demonstrate that even the most general known Kerr-NUT-(A)dS spacetime, describing the general rotating higher-dimensional asymptotically (anti) de Sitter black hole with NUT parameters, is in many aspects similar to its four-dimensional counterpart.
• Namely, we show that it admits a fundamental hidden symmetry associated with the principal conformal Killing-Yano tensor.