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Basic Gravitational Currents and Killing-Yano Forms

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-02-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry

Abstract

It has been shown that for each Killing-Yano (KY)-form accepted by an nn-dimensional (pseudo)Riemannian manifold of arbitrary signature, two basic gravitational currents can be defined. Conservation of the currents are explicitly proved by showing co-exactness of the one and co-closedness of the other. Some general geometrical facts implied by these conservation laws are also elucidated. In particular, the conservation of the one-form currents implies that the scalar curvature of the manifold is a flow invariant for all of its Killing vector fields. It also directly follows that, while all KY-forms and their Hodge duals on a constant curvature manifold are the eigenforms of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, for an Einstein manifold this is certain only for KY 1-forms, (n1)(n-1)-forms and their Hodge duals.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1712,
  title  = {Basic Gravitational Currents and Killing-Yano Forms},
  author = {Ö. Açık and Ü. Ertem and M. Önder and A. Verçin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1712},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages

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