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General $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supergravity-matter systems in six dimensions may be described using one of the two fully fledged superspace formulations for conformal supergravity: (i) $\mathsf{SU}(2)$ superspace; and (ii) conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Ulf Lindström , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Multisymplectic geometry - which originates from the well known de Donder-Weyl theory - is a natural framework for the study of classical field theories. Recently, two algebraic structures have been put forward to encode a given theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cornelius Paufler , Hartmann Romer

We state the intrinsic form of the Hamiltonian equations of first-order Classical Field theories in three equivalent geometrical ways: using multivector fields, jet fields and connections. Thus, these equations are given in a form similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

We consider the bosonic sectors of supergravity theories in ten and eleven dimensions which correspond to the low energy limits of string theories and M-theory. The solutions of supergravity field equations are known as supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-02 Ümit Ertem

The Killing operator on a Riemannian manifold is a linear differential operator on vector fields whose kernel provides the infinitesimal Riemannian symmetries. The Killing operator is best understood in terms of its prolongation, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-10 Michael Eastwood

Every Killing tensor field on the space of constant curvature and on the complex projective space can be decomposed into the sum of symmetric tensor products of Killing vector fields (equivalently, every polynomial in the velocities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vladimir S. Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky

We construct three-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric conformal field theories on conic spaces. Built upon the fact that the partition function depends solely on the Reeb vector of the Killing vector, we propose that holographic dual of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-01 Xing Huang , Soo-Jong Rey , Yang Zhou

We construct the Killing superalgebra of supersymmetric backgrounds of ten-dimensional heterotic and type II supergravities and prove that it is a Lie superalgebra. We also show that if the fraction of supersymmetry preserved by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-03 José Figueroa-O'Farrill , Emily Hackett-Jones , George Moutsopoulos

We present a systematic classification of half-supersymmetric solutions of gauged N=2, D=5 supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number of abelian vector multiplets for which at least one of the Killing spinors generate a time-like Killing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jan B. Gutowski , Wafic A. Sabra

Supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models are obtained from linear sigma models by imposing supersymmetric constraints. If we introduce auxiliary chiral and vector superfields, these constraints can be expressed by D-terms and F-terms depending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Kiyoshi Higashijima , Muneto Nitta

Two dimensional N=2 supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models on hermitian symmetric spaces are formulated in terms of the auxiliary superfields. If we eliminate auxiliary vector and chiral superfields, they give D- and F-term constraints to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyoshi Higashijima , Muneto Nitta

In four spacetime dimensions, all ${\cal N} =1$ supergravity-matter systems can be formulated in the so-called $\mathsf{U}(1)$ superspace proposed by Howe in 1981. This paper is devoted to the study of those geometric structures which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Emmanouil S. N. Raptakis

This paper is devoted to investigate the Killing and Noether symmetries of static plane symmetric spacetime. For this purpose, five different cases have been discussed. The Killing and Noether symmetries of Minkwoski spacetime in cartesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-31 M. Farasat Shamir , Adil Jhangeer , Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti

Harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces arise from a conformally invariant variational problem. Therefore, on one hand, they are intimately connected with moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces, and on the other hand, because the conformal group is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Jürgen Jost , Enno Keßler , Jürgen Tolksdorf , Ruijun Wu , Miaomiao Zhu

It is known that a Killing field on a compact pseudo-K\"ahler manifold is necessarily (real) holomorphic, as long as the manifold satisfies some relatively mild additional conditions. We provide two further proofs of this fact and discuss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Andrzej Derdzinski

In this paper, we present algebraic tools to obtain normal forms of $\omega$-Hamiltonian vector fields under a semisymplectic action of a Lie group, by taking into account the symmetries and reversing symmetries of the vector field. The…

If the Killing vector field in a Riemannian manifold is the gradient of a smooth real valued function, then it is called Killing potential. In this paper we have deduced a necessary condition for the existence of Killing potential in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal

We discuss a formulation of harmonic superspace approach for noncommuative N=2 supersymmetric field theories paying main attention on new features arising because of noncommutativity. We begin with the known notions of the harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. L. Buchbinder , I. B. Samsonov

We study the Lie algebra of infinitesimal isometries on compact Sasakian and K--contact manifolds. On a Sasakian manifold which is not a space form or 3--Sasakian, every Killing vector field is an infinitesimal automorphism of the Sasakian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Florin Belgun , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

A Killing tensor field on a Riemannian space corresponds to an integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in momenta. A Killing tensor field is called decomposable if it is a polynomial in Killing vector fields. In this paper, we first prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Vladimir Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky