Following appendix A of "Ergoregions in Magnetised Black Hole Spacetimes" by G. W. Gibbons, A. H. Mujtaba and C. N. Pope, starting from the Lagrangian
L=ˆR−ˆFμνˆFμν,
metric and field
dˆs2=e2ϕds2+e−2ϕ(dz+2A)2,ˆA=A+χ(dz+2A),
after Kaluza-Klein reduction, with Killing vector K≡∂z corresponding to a spatial dimension, we obtain the reduced lagrangian. After using Lagrange multipliers and dualizing the fields, we obtain ˆF=−e2ϕ⋆dψ+dχ∧(dz+2A),e−2ϕ⋆F=dψ,F≡dA+2χdA,
where the hatted quantities are 4-dimensional, none of the fields depends on z and ⋆ is the Hodge dual with respect to ds2. At the end, they define the complex Ernst potential by dΦ=iK(ˆ⋆ˆF+iˆF), Φ=ψ+iχ, where iK is the interior product by K. iKˆF=−dχ is easy to derive, but dψ=iKˆ⋆ˆF has proved to be not so easy.
My question is about this last equation. Considering that detˆgMN=e4ϕdetgμν, I obtain iKˆ⋆ˆF=−e2ϕ⋆(F+2dχ∧A),
which is obviously wrong. Could somebody provide some hint about this last equation? It must be easy to derive, but I cannot see the way at the moment.
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