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In this paper, we investigate conformal Killing's vectors (CKVs) admitted by some plane symmetric spacetimes. Ten conformal Killing's equations and their general forms of CKVs are derived along with their conformal factor. The existence of…

In this paper, we define a semi-symmetric metric Killing vector field, then study semi-symmetric metric Killing vector fields on warped and multiply warped products with a semi-symmetric metric connection. We also study Killing and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Quan Qu

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

We show that locally conformally flat quasi-Einstein manifolds are globally conformally equivalent to a space form or locally isometric to a $pp$-wave or a warped product.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-07 M. Brozos-Vázquez , E. García-Río , S. Gavino-Fernández

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact K\"ahler manifold and $f$ a positive smooth function such that its Hamiltonian vector field $K = J\mathrm{grad}_g f$ for the K\"ahler form $\omega_g$ is a holomorphic Killing vector field. We say that the pair…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Akito Futaki , Hajime Ono

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 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

Conformal self-dual fields in flat space-time of even dimension greater than or equal to four are studied. Ordinary-derivative formulation of such fields is developed. Gauge invariant Lagrangian with conventional kinetic terms and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-02 R. R. Metsaev

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

For a conformal vector field on a closed, real-analytic, Lorentzian manifold we prove that the flow is locally isometric -- that it preserves a metric in the conformal class on a neighborhood of any point -- or the metric is everywhere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Sorin Dumitrescu , Charles Frances , Karin Melnick , Vincent Pecastaing , Abdelghani Zeghib

In this paper, using connections between Clifford-Wolf isometries and Killing vector fields of constant length on a given Riemannian manifold, we classify simply connected Clifford-Wolf homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We also get the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-01 V. N. Berestovskii , Yu. G. Nikonorov

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

The main result is the identification of the orthogonal complement of the subalgebra of conformal vector field inside the algebra of all vector fields of a compact flat 2-manifold. As a fundamental tool, the complete Hodge decomposition for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Stephen Marsland , Robert McLachlan , Klas Modin , Matthew Perlmutter

In this paper we have obtained evolution of some geometric quantities on a compact Riemannian manifold $M^n$ when the metric is a Yamabe soliton. Using these quantities we have obtained bound on the soliton constant. We have proved that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-15 Debabrata Chakraborty , Yadab Chandra Mandal , Shyamal Kumar Hui

The theory of harmonic vector fields on Riemannian manifolds is generalised to pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Harmonic conformal gradient fields on pseudo-Euclidean hyperquadrics are classified up to congruence, as are harmonic Killing fields…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-31 R. M. Friswell , C. M. Wood

Some years ago Koutras presented a method of constructing a conformal Killing tensor from a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors. When the vector associated with the conformal Killing tensor is a gradient, a Killing tensor (in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Barnes , S. B. Edgar , R. Rani

In this paper we examine different aspects of the geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian manifolds. We begin by getting obstructions to the existence of closed conformal and nonparallel vector fields on complete manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-01 A. Caminha

In this paper we introduce and study a geometric heat flow to find Killing vector fields on closed Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature. We study its various properties, prove the global existence of the solution of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Yi Li , Kefeng Liu

We will discuss in this paper homogeneous locally conformally Keahler (or shortly homogeneous l.c.K.) manifolds and locally homogeneous l.c.K. manifolds from various aspects of study in the field of l.c.K. geometry. We will provide a survey…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Keizo Hasegawa , Yoshinobu Kamishima

We study the geometry and the periodic geodesics of a compact Lorentzian manifold that has a Killing vector field which is timelike somewhere. Using a compactness argument for subgroups of the isometry group, we prove the existence of one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-25 Jose Luis Flores , Miguel Angel Javaloyes , Paolo Piccione