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Conformal Killing forms are a natural generalization of conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. They are defined as sections in the kernel of a conformally invariant first order differential operator. We show the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 U. Semmelmann

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 investigated the behavior of left-invariant conformal vector fields on Lie groups with left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics. First of all, we prove that conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian unimodular Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Adriana Araujo Cintra , Zhiqi Chen , Benedito Leandro Neto

Let $(M,F)$ be a compact connected homogeneous non-Riemannian Finsler manifold with $\dim M>1$. We prove that any conformal vector field on $(M,F)$ is a Killing vector field. Further more, we prove that $\rho F$ is a homogeneous Finsler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Ming Xu

This paper locally classifies finite-dimensional Lie algebras of conformal and Killing vector fields on $\mathbb{R}^2$ relative to an arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian metric. Several results about their geometric properties are detailed, e.g.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 M. M. Lewandowski , J. de Lucas

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

We prove the existence and uniqueness of graphs with prescribed mean curvature function in a large class of Riemannian manifolds which comprises spaces endowed with a conformal Killing vector field.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Marcos Dajczer , Jorge H. S. de Lira

We construct a conformally invariant vector bundle connection such that its equation of parallel transport is a first order system that gives a prolongation of the conformal Killing equation on differential forms. Parallel sections of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 A. Rod Gover , Josef Silhan

The harmonic action functional allows a natural generalisation to semi-Riemannian supergeometry, referred to as superharmonic action, which resembles the supersymmetric sigma models studied in high energy physics. We show that Killing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Josua Groeger

This article aims to classify closed vacuum static spaces with a non-Killing closed conformal vector field. We firstly provide several characterizations of the conditions under which the first derivative of the warping function fulfills the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Jian Ye

The classification of conformal Killing vector fields for FLRW space-time from Riemannian point of view was done by Maartens-Maharaj in \cite{Maartens1986}. In this paper, we introduce conformal Killing vector fields from a new point of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Esmaeil Peyghan , Leila Nourmohammadifar , Damianos Iosifidis

Fayos and Sopuerta have recently set up a formalism for studying vacuum spacetimes with an isometry, a formalism that is centred around the bivector corresponding to the Killing vector and that adapts the tetrad to the bivector. Steele has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Garry Ludwig

Let M be an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold and TM its tangent bundle. The conformal and fiber preserving vector fields on TM have well-known physical interpretations and have been studied by physicists and geometricians. Here we define a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Bidabad , S. Hedayatian

We give a classification for connected complete locally irreducible Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive curvature operator, which admit a nonzero closed or co-closed conformal Killing $L^{2}-$form. Moreover, we prove vanishing theorems…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Sergey Stepanov , Irina Tsyganok

This paper examines the geometry of left-invariant vector fields on five-dimensional, simply connected, nilpotent Lie groups equipped with left-invariant Riemannian metrics. Using the canonical identification between the Lie algebra and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-18 M. L. Foka , R. P. Nimpa , M. B. N. Djiadeu

We show that every conformal vector field on a Damek-Ricci space is necessarily Killing, establishing a strong form of infinitesimal conformal rigidity. Although this rigidity phenomenon is classically known in the Einstein setting, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hiroyasu Satoh , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah

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

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

We show that conformal vector fields on compact locally conformally product manifolds are orthogonal to the flat distribution and Killing with respect to the Gauduchon metric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Brice Flamencourt , Andrei Moroianu

Killing vector fields of constant length correspond to isometries of constant displacement. Those in turn have been used to study homogeneity of Riemannian and Finsler quotient manifolds. Almost all of that work has been done for group…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Ming Xu , Joseph A. Wolf
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