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Every Killing tensor field on the space of constant curvature and on the complex projective space can be decomposed into the sum of symmetric tensor products of Killing vector fields (equivalently, every polynomial in the velocities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vladimir S. Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky

We study Killing tensors in the context of warped products and apply the results to the problem of orthogonal separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. This work is motivated primarily by the case of spaces of constant curvature where…

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

We consider a class of smooth oriented Lorentzian manifolds in dimensions three and four which admit a nowhere vanishing conformal Killing vector and a closed two-form that is invariant under the Lie algebra of conformal Killing vectors.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-20 Paul de Medeiros

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

Let $M$ be a locally rotationally symmetric spacetime, and $\xi^a$ a conformal Killing vector for the metric on $M$, lying in the subspace spanned by the unit timelike direction and the preferred spatial direction, and with non-constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-02 Abbas M. Sherif

We present a purely geometric method for constructing a rank two Killing tensor in a spacetime with a codimension one foliation that lifts the trivial Killing tensors from slices to the entire manifold. The resulting Killing tensor can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kirill Kobialko , Igor Bogush , Dmitri Gal'tsov

Using twistor methods, we explicitly construct all local forms of four--dimensional real analytic neutral signature anti--self--dual conformal structures $(M,[g])$ with a null conformal Killing vector. We show that $M$ is foliated by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Maciej Dunajski , Simon West

The aim of this work is to develop a systematic manner to close overdetermined systems arising from conformal Killing tensors (CKT). The research performs this action for 1-tensor and 2-tensors. This research makes it possible to develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Branson , Alfredo Villanueva

We generalize the notion of hidden conformal symmetry in Kerr/CFT to Kerr-(A)dS black holes in arbitrary dimensions. We build the SL(2, R) generators directly from the Killing tower, whose Killing tensors and Killing vectors enforce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Cynthia Keeler , Victoria Martin , Alankrita Priya

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 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

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

The conformal algebra of a 1+3 decomposable spacetime can be computed from the conformal Killing vectors (CKV) of the 3-space. It is shown that the general form of such a 3-CKV is the sum of a gradient CKV and a Killing or homothetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Tsamparlis , Dimitris Nikolopoulos , Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos

Benefiting from the index spinorial formalism, the Killing spinor equation is integrated in six-dimensional spacetimes. The integrability conditions for the existence of a Killing spinor are worked out and the Killing spinors are classified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Carlos Batista

We construct a conformally invariant vector bundle connection such that its equation of parallel transport is a first order system that gives a prolongation of the conformal Killing equation on differential forms. Parallel sections of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 A. Rod Gover , Josef Silhan

Spacetimes which are conformally related to reducible 1+3 spacetimes are considered. We classify these spacetimes according to the conformal algebra of the underlying reducible spacetime, giving in each case canonical expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-09 Jaume Carot , Aidan J Keane , Brian O J Tupper

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

We prove that on the product of two Riemannian manifolds one of which is compact, any Killing tensor is reducible, that is, is the sum of products of Killing tensors on the factors. The same is true for the lifts to the universal cover of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vladimir S. Matveev , Yuri Nikolayevsky

The notion of a Killing tensor is generalised to a superspace setting. Conserved quantities associated with these are defined for superparticles and Poisson brackets are used to define a supersymmetric version of the Schouten-Nijenhuis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 P. S. Howe , U. Lindström

A covariant algorithm for deriving the conserved quantities for natural Hamiltonian systems is combined with the non-relativistic framework of Eisenhart, and of Duval, in which the classical trajectories arise as geodesics in a higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Cariglia , G. W. Gibbons , J. -W. van Holten , P. A. Horvathy , P. -M. Zhang