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This paper is devoted to searching for Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces whose geodesic flows admit a rational in momenta first integral with a linear numerator and denominator. The explicit examples of metrics and such integrals are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Sergei Agapov , Vladislav Shubin

We discuss novel generalisations of Killing tensors, which are introduced by considering rational first integrals of geodesic equations. We introduce the notion of inconstructible generalised Killing tensors, which cannot be constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-27 Arata Aoki , Tsuyoshi Houri , Kentaro Tomoda

It is commonly known that Killing vectors and tensors are in one-to-one correspondence with polynomial first integrals of the geodesic equation. In this work, metrics admitting nonpolynomial first integrals of the geodesic equation are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Anton Galajinsky

The goal of this paper is the study of algebraic relations on the Lie algebra of first integrals of the geodesic flow on nilpotent Lie groups equipped with a left-invariant metric. It is proved that the isometry algebra of the $k$-step…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Gabriela P. Ovando

In this note we give a criterion for the existence of a fractional-linear integral for a geodesic flow on a Riemannian surface and explain that modulo M\"obius transformations the moduli space of such local integrals (if nonempty) is either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Boris Kruglikov

In the present paper we show that the geodesic flows of a sub-Riemannian metric and that of a Riemannian extension commute if and only if the extended metric is parallel with respect to a certain connection. This helps us to describe the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Mauricio Godoy Molina , Erlend Grong

In this work we introduce a new family of symmetric tensors generalizing Killing tensors, that we call magnetic Killing symmetric tensors. We make use of them to construct first integrals for the magnetic flow associated to a given magnetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andrei Moroianu , Gabriela Ovando

A symmetric tensor field on a Riemannian manifold is called Killing field if the symmetric part of its covariant derivative is equal to zero. There is a one to one correspondence between Killing tensor fields and first integrals of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Vladimir Sharafutdinov

We review properties of so-called special conformal Killing tensors on a Riemannian manifold $(Q,g)$ and the way they give rise to a Poisson-Nijenhuis structure on the tangent bundle $TQ$. We then address the question of generalizing this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Willy Sarlet

A Killing tensor field on a Riemannian space corresponds to an integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in momenta. A Killing tensor field is called decomposable if it is a polynomial in Killing vector fields. In this paper, we first prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Vladimir Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky

In this survey article we gather classical as well as recent results on minimal geodesics of Riemannian or Finsler metrics, giving special attention to the two-dimensional case. Moreover, we present open problems together with some first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Jan Philipp Schröder

Streamlines of a relativistic perfect isentropic fluid are geodesics of a Riemannian space whose metric is defined by enthalpy of the fluid. This fact simplifies the solution of some problems, as is also of interest from the point of view…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-19 Leonid Verozub

We study Riemannian metrics on surfaces whose geodesic flows are superintegrable with one integral linear in momenta and one integral quartic in momenta. The main results of the work are local description of such metrics in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Pavel Novichkov

We study a Killing spinor type equation on spin Riemannian flows. We prove integrability conditions and partially classify those Riemannian flows $M$ carrying non-trivial solutions to that equation in case $M$ is a local Riemannian product,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-17 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

Third rank Killing tensors in (1+1)-dimensional geometries are investigated and classified. It is found that a necessary and sufficient condition for such a geometry to admit a third rank Killing tensor can always be formulated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Max Karlovini , Kjell Rosquist

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

The Lie symmetries of the geodesic equations in a Riemannian space are computed in terms of the special projective group and its degenerates (affine vectors, homothetic vector and Killing vectors) of the metric. The Noether symmetries of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Michael Tsamparlis , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We study Riemannian metrics on 2-surfaces with integrable geodesic flows such that an additional first integral is high-degree polynomial in momenta. This problem reduces to searching for solutions to certain quasi-linear systems of PDEs…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Sergei Agapov

A rank $m$ symmetric tensor field on a Riemannian manifold is called a Killing field if the symmetric part of its covariant derivative is equal to zero. Such a field determines the first integral of the geodesic flow which is a degree $m$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov

By applying the lightlike Eisenhart lift to several known examples of low-dimensional integrable systems admitting integrals of motion of higher-order in momenta, we obtain four- and higher-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes with irreducible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 G. W. Gibbons , T. Houri , D. Kubiznak , C. M. Warnick
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