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Killing and Conformal Killing tensors

Differential Geometry 2017-01-20 v3

Abstract

We introduce an appropriate formalism in order to study conformal Killing (symmetric) tensors on Riemannian manifolds. We reprove in a simple way some known results in the field and obtain several new results, like the classification of conformal Killing 22-tensors on Riemannian products of compact manifolds, Weitzenb\"ock formulas leading to non-existence results, and construct various examples of manifolds with conformal Killing tensors.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.03734,
  title  = {Killing and Conformal Killing tensors},
  author = {Konstantin Heil and Andrei Moroianu and Uwe Semmelmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03734},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

29 pages; the statement and the proof of Theorem 5.1 have been corrected

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