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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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Konstantin Heil , Andrei Moroianu , Uwe Semmelmann

In this paper, we study generalized $m$-quasi-Einstein $(M^n,g,X,\lambda)$ under natural conditions on the potential vector field. We show that, under suitable integral assumptions, the potential vector field is Killing, extending earlier…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Alcides de Carvalho , Anderson Lima , W. O. Costa-Filho

Let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold, $L(M)$ its frame bundle. We construct new examples of Riemannian metrics on $L(M)$, which are obtained from Riemannian metrics on the tangent bundle $TM$. We compute the Levi--Civita connection and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Kamil Niedzialomski

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

A new characterization is provided for the class of compact rank-one symmetric spaces. Such spaces are the only symmetric spaces of compact type for which the standard vector field on their sphere bundles is Killing with respect to some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 J. C. González-Dávila

We study the natural G_2 structure on the unit tangent sphere bundle SM of any given orientable Riemannian 4-manifold M, as it was discovered in \cite{AlbSal}. A name is proposed for the space. We work in the context of metric connections,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Rui Albuquerque

In this paper, using connections between Clifford-Wolf isometries and Killing vector fields of constant length on a given Riemannian manifold, we classify simply connected Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We also get the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-01 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

We define and examine the notion of a Killing section of a Riemannian Lie algebroid as a natural generalisation of a Killing vector field. We show that the various expression for a vector field to be Killing naturally generalise to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-12 Andrew James Bruce

Natural metric structures on tangent bundles and tangent sphere bundles enclose many important problems, from the topology of the base to the determination of their holonomy. We make here a brief study of the topic. We find the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Rui Albuquerque

We review properties of so-called special conformal Killing tensors on a Riemannian manifold $(Q,g)$ and the way they give rise to a Poisson-Nijenhuis structure on the tangent bundle $TQ$. We then address the question of generalizing this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Willy Sarlet

Killing vector fields in three dimensions play important role in the construction of the related spacetime geometry. In this work we show that when a three dimensional geometry admits a Killing vector field then the Ricci tensor of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Metin Gurses

We prove that on the product of two Riemannian manifolds one of which is compact, any Killing tensor is reducible, that is, is the sum of products of Killing tensors on the factors. The same is true for the lifts to the universal cover of…

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

The defining equations for Killing vector fields and conformal Killing vector fields are overdetermined systems of PDE. This makes it difficult to solve the systems numerically. We propose an approach which reduces the computation to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Gaëlle Brunet , Maryam Samavaki , Jukka Tuomela

A Riemannian metric bundle G(M) is a fiber bundle over a smooth manifold M, whose fibers are the spaces of symmetric, positive-definite bilinear forms on the tangent spaces of M, which represent the Rieman?nian metrics. In this work, we aim…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Shouvik Datta Choudhury

The virial theorem is formulated both intrinsically and in local coordinates for a Lagrangian system of mechanical type on a Riemann manifold. An import case studied in this paper is that of an affine virial function associated to a vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 José F. Cariñena , Irina Gheorghiu , Eduardo Martínez , Patrícia Santos

We survey on the geometry of the tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold, endowed with the classical metric established by S. Sasaki 60 years ago. Following the results of Sasaki, we try to write and deduce them by different means.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Rui Albuquerque

We give a short proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a real oriented Riemannian vector bundle $E$ of even rank over a closed compact orientable manifold $M$. This theorem reduces to the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem in the special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis Bell

We study the relation between the existence of null conformal Killing vector fields and existence of compatible complex and para-hypercomplex structures on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold with metric of signature (2,2). We establish first the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Johann Davidov , Gueo Grantcharov , Oleg Mushkarov

Given a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^m,g)$ and a vector field $v$ on $M$, we form the Sasaki metric $g_S$ on $TM$, and restrict it to the image of the cross section map of $M$ into $TM$ defined by $v$, whose pull back to $M$ defines a new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Santiago R. Simanca

The purpose of this paper is to investigate applications the covariant derivatives, killing vector fields and to calculate the components of the curvature tensor CGR of the Cheeger-Gromoll metric with respect to adapted frames in a the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Melek Aras