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We employ the language of Cartan's geometry to present a model for studying vector spaces of Killing two-tensors defined in pseudo-Riemannian spaces of constant curvature under the action of the corresponding isometry group. We also discuss…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Caroline M. Adlam , Raymond G. McLenaghan , Roman G. Smirnov

Methods are presented for finding Killing-Yano tensors, conformal Killing-Yano tensors, and conformal Killing vectors in spacetimes with a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector. These methods are similar to a method developed by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 David Garfinkle , E. N. Glass

From the metric and one Killing-Yano tensor of rank D-2 in any D-dimensional spacetime with such a principal Killing-Yano tensor, we show how to generate k=[(D+1)/2] Killing-Yano tensors, of rank D-2j for all j=0,...,k-1, and k rank-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Pavel Krtous , David Kubiznak , Don N. Page , Valeri P. Frolov

A geometric formulation of the Lax pair equation on a curved manifold is studied using phase space formalism. The corresponding (covariantly conserved) Lax tensor is defined and the method of generation of constants of motion from it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Marco Cariglia , Valeri P. Frolov , Pavel Krtous , David Kubiznak

We present a theorem describing a dual relation between the local geometry of a space admitting a symmetric second-rank Killing tensor, and the local geometry of a space with a metric specified by this Killing tensor. The relation can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. H. Rietdijk , J. W. van Holten

In the framework of the General Relativity we show that from three generalizations of Killing vector fields, namely f-symbols, symmetric St\"{a}ckel-Killing and antisymmetric Killing-Yano tensors, some conserved currents can be obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-23 Ovidiu Tintareanu-Mircea

In this paper the isometries of the dual space were investigated. The dual structural equations of a Killing tensor of order two were found . The flat space case was analyzed in details.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dumitru Baleanu

This paper presents a classification of irreducible Killing and conformal Killing 2-tensors on homogeneous plane waves, a specific class of Lorentzian metrics on four-dimensional manifolds. Using the framework of BGG operators, we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Jan Gregorovič , Lenka Zalabová

We investigate Killing tensors for various black hole solutions of supergravity theories. Rotating black holes of an ungauged theory, toroidally compactified heterotic supergravity, with NUT parameters and two U(1) gauge fields are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 David D. K. Chow

We present a purely geometric method for constructing a rank two Killing tensor in a spacetime with a codimension one foliation that lifts the trivial Killing tensors from slices to the entire manifold. The resulting Killing tensor can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kirill Kobialko , Igor Bogush , Dmitri Gal'tsov

Given an d-dimensional manifold with two commuting Killing vectors, together with an d - 1 dimensional submanifold in which one of the Killing vectors lies, then the lapse and shift of the second Killing vector, relative to this slice,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-09 Niall O Murchadha

Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Raffaele Rani , S. Brian Edgar , Alan Barnes

We provide a general method for studying manifestly $O(n+1)$ covariant formulation of $p$-form gauge theories by stereographically projecting these theories, defined in flat Euclidean space, onto the surface of a hypersphere. The gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Rabin Banerjee

In free completely symmetric tensor gauge field theories on Minkowski space-time, all gauge invariant functions and Killing tensor fields are computed, both on-shell and off-shell. These problems are addressed in the metric-like formalisms.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Xavier Bekaert , Nicolas Boulanger

The generalized Killing equations for the configuration space of spinning particles (spinning space) are analysed. Solutions of these equations are expressed in terms of Killing-Yano tensors. In general the constants of motion can be seen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Mihai Visinescu

This paper is the initial part of a comprehensive study of spacetimes that admit the canonical forms of Killing tensor in General Relativity. The general scope of the study is to derive either new exact solutions of Einstein's equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Dionysios Kokkinos , Taxiarchis Papakostas

We investigate higher rank Killing-Yano tensors showing that third rank Killing-Yano tensors are not always trivial objects being possible to construct irreducible Killing tensors from them. We give as an example the Kimura IIC metric were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Catalin Popa , Ovidiu Tintareanu-Mircea

Some years ago Koutras presented a method of constructing a conformal Killing tensor from a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors. When the vector associated with the conformal Killing tensor is a gradient, a Killing tensor (in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Barnes , S. B. Edgar , R. Rani

In this paper we solve the problem of finding integrals of equations determining the Killing tensors on an $n$ -dimensional differentiable manifold $M$ endowed with an equiaffine $ SL(n, R) $ -structure and discuss possible applications of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-09 S. E. Stepanov , I. I. Tsyganok

The role of Killing and Killing-Yano tensors for studying the geodesic motion of the particle and the superparticle in a curved background is reviewed. Additionally the Papadopoulos list [74] for Killing-Yano tensors in G structures is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Santillan