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Generalized Taub-NUT metrics and Killing-Yano tensors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A necessary condition that a St\"ackel-Killing tensor of valence 2 be the contracted product of a Killing-Yano tensor of valence 2 with itself is re-derived for a Riemannian manifold. This condition is applied to the generalized Euclidean Taub-NUT metrics which admit a Kepler type symmetry. It is shown that in general the St\"ackel-Killing tensors involved in the Runge-Lenz vector cannot be expressed as a product of Killing-Yano tensors. The only exception is the original Taub-NUT metric.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9911126,
  title  = {Generalized Taub-NUT metrics and Killing-Yano tensors},
  author = {Mihai Visinescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9911126},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, LaTeX. Final version to appear in J.Phys.A:Math.Gen