On the significance of Killing tensors

Details On the significance of Killing tensors On the significance of Killing tensors

Apr 1989

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General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp.427-437

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Killing vectors give the linear first integrals of the geodesic equations on Riemannian manifolds and spacetimes, while Killing tensors give the quadratic, cubic, and higher-order first integrals. Here it is shown that the Lie algebra of Killing vectors,γ, is extended by Killing tensors into a graded algebra,Γ. This sheds some light on the comment by Xanthopoulos [1] on the apparent scarcity of irreducible Killing tensors. Examples are presented of the graded algebrasΓ whenγ is abelian and whenγ is nonabelian.

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