Separation of variables and symmetry operators for the conformally invariant Klein-Gordon equation on curved spacetime

DOI10.1007/BF00398553zbMath0576.53051MaRDI QIDQ1065375

Niky Kamran, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Klein-Gordon equationLaplace-Beltrami equationseparability propertiesconformally invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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