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Lorentzian manifolds having the Killing property (English)
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7 August 2013
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The author considers an \(n\)-dimensional Lorentzian manifold \(M\) admitting a pair of skew-symmetric null Killing vector fields, which define a commutative left-invariant pairing. The \((n-2)\)-dimensional spatial distribution orthogonal to the pair of Killing vectors is involutive and its leaves are totally geodesic and pseudoisotropic. It is shown that for \(n=4\) the general space-time \(M\) is of type \(D\) in the Petrov classification, and that the spatial surfaces which foliate \(M\) are totally geodesic and pseudo-isotropic. Some properties of the Debever congruence are indicated.
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Killing vector fields
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pseudo-isotropic submanifold
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complex vectorial formalism
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Debever vector field
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