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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

We establish normal forms for conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds in the neighborhood of a singularity. For real-analytic Lorentzian manifolds, we show that the vector field is analytically linearizable or the manifold is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Charles Frances , Karin Melnick

For Kaehler manifolds we explicitly determine the solution to the conformal Killing form equation in middle degree. In particular, we complete the classification of conformal Killing forms on compact Kaehler manifolds. We give the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Paul-Andi Nagy , Uwe Semmelmann

The homogeneous affine surfaces have been classified by Opozda. They may be grouped into 3 families, which are not disjoint. The connections which arise as the Levi-Civita connection of a surface with a metric of constant Gauss curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-18 M. Brozos-Vázquez , E. García-Río , P. Gilkey

We realize an explicit conformal mapping between the state and operator pictures in a class of (2+1)-dimensional non-Lorentzian field theories with SU(1,2)$\times$U(1) conformal symmetry. The state picture arises from null reducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-20 Stefano Baiguera , Troels Harmark , Yang Lei , Ziqi Yan

The general form of a 2D conformal field theory (CFT) correlator on a Euclidean Riemann surface, Lorentzian plane or Lorentzian cylinder is well-known. This paper describes the general form of 2- and 3-point CFT correlators on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

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

This is an expository article which describes one approach to the construction and classification of harmonic tori "of finite type", namely, via their ring of polynomial Killing fields. To keep the discussion focussed, the first section is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-16 I McIntosh

A vector field on a Riemannian manifold is called conformal Killing if it generates one-parameter group of conformal transformations. The class of conformal Killing symmetric tensor fields of an arbitrary rank is a natural generalization of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-21 Nurlan S. Dairbekov , Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

We obtain all the three-dimensional Lorentzian metrics which admit three Killing vectors. The classification has been done with the aid of the formalism which exploits the obstruction criteria for the Killing equations recently developed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 Masato Nozawa , Kentaro Tomoda

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

This article provides a complete characterization of the conformal classes of product tori and standard flat tori in complex dimension 1 (real dimension 2). Utilizing basic differential geometry methods, our approach contrasts with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Leonardo A. Cano García

We obtain a coordinate independent algorithm to determine the class of conformal Killing vectors of a locally conformally flat $n$-metric $\gamma$ of signature $(r,s)$ modulo conformal transformations of $\gamma$. This is done in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Marc Mars , Carlos Peón-Nieto

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 give a complete local classification of all Riemannian 3-manifolds $(M,g)$ admitting a nonvanishing Killing vector field $T$. We then extend this classification to timelike Killing vector fields on Lorentzian 3-manifolds, which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Amir Babak Aazami , Robert Ream

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

Lagrangian curves in 4-space entertain intriguing relationships with second order deformation of plane curves under the special affine group and null curves in a 3-dimensional Lorentzian space form. We provide a natural affine symplectic…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Emilio Musso , Evelyne Hubert

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 introduce the concept of bi-conformal transformation, as a generalization of conformal ones, by allowing two orthogonal parts of a manifold with metric $\G$ to be scaled by different conformal factors. In particular, we study their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alfonso García-Parrado , José M. M. Senovilla

The aim of this paper is to describe the geometry of conformal structures in Lorentzian signature, which admit a lightlike conformal Killing vector field whose corresponding adjoint tractor acts as complex structure on the standard tractor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Felipe Leitner