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A covariant algorithm for deriving the conserved quantities for natural Hamiltonian systems is combined with the non-relativistic framework of Eisenhart, and of Duval, in which the classical trajectories arise as geodesics in a higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Cariglia , G. W. Gibbons , J. -W. van Holten , P. A. Horvathy , P. -M. Zhang

Building upon previous works characterizing GRW space-times using concircular and torse-forming vectors, this paper investigates a Lorentzian manifold equipped with a concircularly semi-symmetric metric connection. We demonstrate that such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Miroslav D. Maksimović , Milan Lj. Zlatanović , Milica R. Vučurović

A planar superfluid is considered and interpreted in terms of electromagnetism and gravity. It has previously been suggested that the superfluid flow can be regarded as analogous to an electromagnetic field and that a non-vanishing density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-29 Emil Génetay Johansen

In this paper using the Clifford bundle formalism a Lagrangian theory of the Yang-Mills type (with a gauge fixing term and an auto interacting term) for the gravitational field in Minkowski spacetime is presented. It is shown how two simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-23 Eduardo A. Notte-Cuello , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

In vacuum space-times the exterior derivative of a Killing vector field is a two-form that satisfies Maxwell equations without electromagnetic sources. Using the algebraic structure of this two-form we have set up a new formalism for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Francesc Fayos , Carlos F. Sopuerta

In the differential geometry of certain F-structures, the role of W-curvature tensor is very well known. A detailed study of this tensor has been made on the spacetime of general relativity. The spacetimes satisfying Einstein field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Zafar Ahsan , Musavvir Ali

We consider a class of inhomogeneous self-similar cosmological models in which the perfect fluid flow is tangential to the orbits of a three-parameter similarity group. We restrict the similarity group to possess both an Abelian $G_{2}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Sepehr Rashidi , C. G. Hewitt , Benoit Charbonneau

Motivated by supersymmetry methods in general relativity, we study four-dimensional Lorentzian space-times with a complex Dirac spinor field satisfying a Killing-spinor-like equation where the Killing constant is promoted to a complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-02 Bernardo Araneda , Ángel J. Murcia

In this paper we study the electromagnetic fields generated by a Killing vector field in vacuum space-times (Papapetrou fields). The motivation of this work is to provide new tools for the resolution of Maxwell's equations as well as for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesc Fayos , Carlos F Sopuerta

We consider a self-gravitating, rigidly rotating charged perfect fluid immersed in the Wald magnetosphere, constructed out of two linearly independent Killing vectors present in stationary and axially-symmetric spacetimes. We show that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Paweł Doruchowski , Patryk Mach , Audrey Trova , Bakhtinur Juraev

The method based on the Horsky-Mitskievitch conjecture is applied to the Levi-Civita vacuum metric. It is shown, that every Killing vector is connected with a particular class of Einstein-Maxwell fields and each of those classes is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Richterek , J. Novotny , J. Horsky

Modern undergraduate textbooks in electricity and magnetism typically focus on a force representation of electrodynamics with an emphasis on Maxwell's Equations and the Lorentz Force Law. The vector potential $\mathbf{A}$ and scalar…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 T. Stein

The Einstein-Maxwell (E-M) equations in a curved spacetime that admits at least one Killing vector are derived, from a Lagrangian density adapted to symmetries. In this context, an auxiliary space of potentials is introduced, in which, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 I. G. Contopoulos , F. P. Esposito , K. Kleidis , D. B. Papadopoulos , L. Witten

A fully relativistically covariant and manifestly gauge invariant formulation of classical Maxwell electrodynamics is presented, purely in terms of gauge invariant potentials without entailing any gauge fixing. We show that the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Parthasarathi Majumdar , Anarya Ray

We study the conformal classes of 2-dimensional Lorentzian tori with (non zero) Killing fields. We define a map that associate to such a class a vector field on the circle (up to a scalar factor). This map is not injective but has finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Pierre Mounoud

We construct a complete conformal scattering theory for finite energy Maxwell potentials on a class of curved, asymptotically flat spacetimes with prescribed smoothness of null infinity and a non-zero ADM mass. In order to define the full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Jean-Philippe Nicolas , Grigalius Taujanskas

We obtain a two-parameter set of solutions, which represents a spherically symmetric space-time with a superposition of a neutral fluid and an electric field. The electromagnetic four-potential of this Einstein-Maxwell space-time is taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mauricio Cataldo , Patricio Salgado

We study some symmetry and integrability properties of four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell gravity with nonvanishing cosmological constant in the presence of Killing vectors. First of all, we consider stationary spacetimes, which lead, after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Dietmar Klemm , Masato Nozawa , Marco Rabbiosi

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability in exponential time of Minkowki space-time with a translation space-like Killing field. In the presence of such a symmetry, the 3 + 1 vacuum Einstein equations reduce to the 2 + 1 Einstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Cécile Huneau

Perfect fluid space-times admitting a three-dimensional Lie group of conformal motions containing a two-dimensional Abelian Lie subgroup of isometries are studied. Demanding that the conformal Killing vector be proper (i.e., not homothetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Carot , A. A. Coley , A. M. Sintes