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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

Some basic theorems on Killing vector fields are reviewed. In particular, the topic of a constant-curvature space is examined. A detailed proof is given for a theorem describing the most general form of the metric of a homogeneous isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 M. O. Katanaev

This paper explores the Petrov type D, stationary axisymmetric vacuum (SAV) spacetimes that were found by Carter to have separable Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and thus admit a second-order Killing tensor. The derivation of the spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jeandrew Brink

Asymptotically flat spacetimes with one Killing vector field are considered. The Killing equations are solved asymptotically using polyhomogeneous expansions (i.e. series in powers of 1/r an ln r), and solved order by order. The solution to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Valiente-Kroon

We develop a new method in order to classify the Bianchi I spacetimes which admit conformal Killing vectors (CKV). The method is based on two propositions which relate the CKVs of 1+(n-1) decomposable Riemannian spaces with the CKVs of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-13 Michael Tsamparlis , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Leonidas Karpathopoulos

We consider the conformal properties of geometries described by higher-rank line elements. A crucial role is played by the conformal Killing equation (CKE). We introduce the concept of null-flat spaces in which the line element can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Victor Tapia

We show that every conformal vector field on a Damek-Ricci space is necessarily Killing, establishing a strong form of infinitesimal conformal rigidity. Although this rigidity phenomenon is classically known in the Einstein setting, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hiroyasu Satoh , Hemangi Madhusudan Shah

In four dimensions, the most general metric admitting two Killing vectors and a rank-two Killing tensor can be parameterized by ten arbitrary functions of a single variable. We show that picking a special vierbien, reducing the system to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Andres Anabalon , Carlos Batista

Killing vector fields in three dimensions play important role in the construction of the related spacetime geometry. In this work we show that when a three dimensional geometry admits a Killing vector field then the Ricci tensor of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Metin Gurses

We consider an action that can generate fluids with three unequal stresses for metrics with a spacelike Killing vector. The parameters in the action are directly related to the stress anisotropies. The field equations following from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 J. P. Krisch , E. N. Glass

We investigate the conformal geometry of spherically symmetric spacetimes in general without specifying the form of the matter distribution. The general conformal Killing symmetry is obtained subject to a number of integrability conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Moopanar , S. D. Maharaj

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

In this paper we describe an approach to construct large extendable collections of vectors in predefined spaces of given dimensions. These collections are useful for neural network latent space configuration and training. For classification…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Igor V. Netay

When spacetime torsion is present, geodesics and autoparallels generically do not coincide. In this work, the well-known method that uses Killing vectors to solve the geodesic equations is generalized for autoparallels. The main definition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-02 Christian Peterson , Yuri Bonder

Two types of finite element spaces on a tetrahedron are constructed for divdiv conforming symmetric tensors in three dimensions. The key tools of the construction are the decomposition of polynomial tensor spaces and the characterization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

It has been known that warped-product spacetimes such as spherically symmetric ones admit the Kodama vector. This vector provides a locally conserved current made by contraction of the Einstein tensor, even though there is no Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Shunichiro Kinoshita

We generalize the embedding formalism for conformal field theories to the case of general operators with mixed symmetry. The index-free notation encoding symmetric tensors as polynomials in an auxiliary polarization vector is extended to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-03 Miguel S. Costa , Tobias Hansen

We study a limit of the Kerr-(A)dS spacetime in a general dimension where an arbitrary number of its rotational parameters is set equal. The resulting metric after the limit formally splits into two parts - the first part has the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Eliška Polášková , Pavel Krtouš

In this paper, on basis of three quadratic differential operators leaving the form degree of an arbitrary differential form unchanged, that is, the d'Alembertian operator and two combined ones from the Hodge coderivative and the exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 Jun-Jin Peng , Chang-Li Zou

We introduce simple group-theoretic techniques for classifying conformally-invariant tensor-structures. With them, we classify tensor structures of general n-point functions of non-conserved operators, and $n\geq 4$-point functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin