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We study some geometric properties of Killing horizons in 4-dimensional stationary and axisymmetric space-times with electromagnetic field and cosmological constant. Using a $(1+1+2)$ space-time split, we construct relations between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrey A. Shoom

Motivated by the possible characterization of Sasakian manifolds in terms of twistor forms, we give the complete classification of compact Riemannian manifolds carrying a Killing vector field whose covariant derivative (viewed as a 2-form)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Andrei Moroianu

In this paper, we first investigate almost Yamabe solitons on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary of dimension greater than or equal to two. We provide some sufficient conditions for which the defining conformal vector field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Ramesh Mete

The Killing equation for a general Finsler space is set up. It is showed that the Killing equation of $(\alpha,\beta)$ space can be divided into two parts. One is the same with Killing equation of a Riemannian metric, another equation can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-08 Xin Li , Zhe Chang , Xiaohuan Mo

This paper examines a proposal for gauging non-linear sigma models with respect to a Lie algebroid action. The general conditions for gauging a non-linear sigma model with a set of involutive vector fields are given. We show that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Kyle Wright

We study 4-dimensional second-Chern-Einstein almost-Hermitian manifolds. In the compact case, we observe that under a certain hypothesis the Riemannian dual of the Lee form is a Killing vector field. We use that observation to describe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Giuseppe Barbaro , Mehdi Lejmi

In a space-time $M$ with a Killing vector field $\xi^a$ which is either everywhere timelike or everywhere spacelike, the collection of all trajectories of $\xi^a$ gives a 3-dimension space $S$. Besides the symmetry-reduced action from that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Han He , Yongge Ma , Xuejun Yang

We study the simply connected inextendable Lorentzian surfaces admitting a Killing vector field. We construct a natural family of such surfaces, that we call "universal extensions". They are characterized by a condition of symmetry, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Christophe Bavard , Pierre Mounoud

For spacetimes with timelike Killing fields, we introduce a "Fermi-Walker-Killing" coordinate system and use it to prove a Liouville Theorem for an appropriate volume element of phase space for a statistical mechanical system of particles.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-12 David Klein , Peter Collas

The Newman-Penrose equations for spacetimes having one spacelike Killing vector are reduced -- in a geometrically defined "canonical frame'' -- to a minimal set, and its differential structure is studied. Expressions for the frame vectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bonanos

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

We study vector fields generating a local flow by automorphisms of a parabolic geometry with higher order fixed points. We develop general tools extending the techniques of [1], [2], and [3]. We apply these tools to almost Grassmannian,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Andreas Čap , Karin Melnick

A new method is presented for finding Killing tensors in spacetimes with symmetries. The method is used to find all the Killing tensors of Melvin's magnetic universe and the Schwarzschild vacuum. We show that they are all trivial. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 David Garfinkle , E. N. Glass

For semi-Riemannian manifolds of constant sectional curvature, the Calabi operator is a second order linear differential operator that provides local integrability conditions for the range of the Killing operator. In this article, extending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Federico Costanza , Michael Eastwood , Thomas Leistner , Benjamin McMillan

Binary black hole spacetimes with a helical Killing vector, which are discussed as an approximation for the early stage of a binary system, are studied in a projection formalism. In this setting the four dimensional Einstein equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Klein

The basics of quasitriangular Hopf algebras and quantum Lie algebras are briefly reviewed, and it is shown that their properties allow the introduction of a Killing form. For quantum Lie algebras, this leads to the definitions of a Killing…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Paul Watts

We show that the group of smooth isometries of a complemented sub-Riemannian manifold form a Lie group and establish dimension estimates based on the torsion of the canonical connection. We explore the interaction of curvature and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Robert K. Hladky

A section of a Riemannian $G$-manifold $M$ is a closed submanifold $\Sigma$ which meets each orbit orthogonally. It is shown that the algebra of $G$-invariant differential forms on $M$ which are horizontal in the sense that they kill every…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Peter W. Michor

The Killing tensors of arbitrary rank on complex projective space with its Fubini-Study metric are determined and it is shown that these spaces are generated by the Killing fields.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Michael Eastwood

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