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Killing tensor fields have been thought of as describing hidden symmetry of space(-time) since they are in one-to-one correspondence with polynomial first integrals of geodesic equations. Many problems in classical mechanics can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-30 Tsuyoshi Houri , Kentaro Tomoda , Yukinori Yasui

In this paper, we show that some five-dimensional rotating black hole solutions of both gauged and ungauged supergravity, with independent rotation parameters and three charges admit separable solutions to the massless Hamilton-Jacobi and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Davis

This paper explores the Petrov type D, stationary axisymmetric vacuum (SAV) spacetimes that were found by Carter to have separable Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and thus admit a second-order Killing tensor. The derivation of the spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jeandrew Brink

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

This paper presents an efficient technique for finding Killing, homothetic, or even proper conformal Killing vectors in the Newman-Penrose (NP) formalism. Leaning on, and extending, results previously derived in the GHP formalism we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Garry Ludwig , S. Brian Edgar

The vanishing of the Haantjes tensor is an important property that has been linked, for instance, to the existence of separation coordinates and the integrability of systems of hydrodynamic type. We discuss the vanishing of the Haantjes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ian Marquette , Damien McLeod , Serena Scapucci , Andreas Vollmer

A tensor -- meaning here a tensor field $\Theta$ of any type $(p,q)$ on a manifold -- may be called integrable if it is parallel relative to some torsion-free connection. We provide analytical and geometric characterizations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Andrzej Derdzinski , Paolo Piccione , Ivo Terek

We discuss the pairs of quadratic integrals of motion belonging to the $n$-dimensional space of independent integrals of motion in involution, that provide integrability of the corresponding Hamiltonian equations of motion by quadratures.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-07-19 E. O. Porubov , A. V. Tsiganov

We study almost complex structures on parallelizable manifolds via the rank of their Nijenhuis tensor. First, we show how the computations of such rank can be reduced to finding smooth functions on the underlying manifold solving a system…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Lorenzo Sillari , Adriano Tomassini

In this paper we explore general conditions which guarantee that the geodesic flow on a 2-dimensional manifold with indefinite signature is locally separable. This is equivalent to showing that a 2-dimensional natural Hamiltonian system on…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-01-15 Giuseppe Pucacco , Kjell Rosquist

We find all orthogonal metrics where the geodesic Hamilton-Jacobi equation separates and the Riemann curvature tensor satisfies a certain equation (called the diagonal curvature condition). All orthogonal metrics of constant curvature…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Krishan Rajaratnam , Raymond G. McLenaghan

We show that some modern geometric methods of Hamiltonian dynamics can be directly applied to the nonholonomic Heisenberg type systems. As an example we present characteristic Killing tensors, compatible Poisson brackets, Lax matrices and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-11-28 Yury A. Grigoryev , Alexey P. Sozonov , Andrey V. Tsiganov

We prove a general existence theorem for nonlinear partial differential systems of any order in one complex variable. A special case of first order contains a well-known theorem of Nijenhuis and Woolf concerning local existence of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Yifei Pan

We study a particular system of partial differential equations in which the harmonic, the divergence and the gradient operators of the unknown functions appear (harmonic-divgrad system). Using the Killing Hopf theorem and leveraging the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Federico Manzoni

Held has proposed a coordinate- and gauge-free integration procedure within the GHP formalism built around four functionally independent zero-weighted scalars constructed from the spin coefficients and the Riemann tensor components.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Brian Edgar , Garry Ludwig

The multi-centre metrics are a family of euclidean solutions of the empty space Einstein equations with self-dual curvature. For this full class, we determine which metrics do exhibit an extra conserved quantity quadratic in the momenta,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Galliano Valent

A new method to construct Hamiltonian functions in involution is presented. We show that on left-symmetric algebras a Nijenhuis-tensor is given in a natural manner by the usual right-multiplication. Furthermore we prove that symplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Axel Winterhalder

We perform variable separation in the quasi-potential systems of equations of the form $\ddot{q}=-A^{-1}\nabla k=-\tilde{A}^{-1}\nabla\tilde{k}${}, where $A$ and $\tilde{A}$ are Killing tensors, by embedding these systems into a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Krzysztof Marciniak , Maciej Blaszak

The separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation has a well-known connection to the existence of Killing vectors and rank-two Killing tensors. This paper combines this connection with the detailed knowledge of the compactification metrics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Krzysztof Pilch , Robert Walker , Nicholas P. Warner

Conformal Killing equations and their integrability conditions for nonexpanding hyperheavenly spaces with Lambda are studied. Reduction of ten Killing equations to one master equation is presented. Classification of homothetic and isometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam Chudecki