Antisymmetric tensor generalizations of affine vector fields

DOI10.1063/1.4939185MaRDI QIDQ2795558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tsuyoshi Houri, Yoshiyuki Morisawa, Kentaro Tomoda

Publication date 21 March 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03538, http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4706544

zbMATH Keywords

affine tensorsaffine vectorsdifferential geometrygeneral relativityKilling tensorsKilling-Yano tensorssymmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Affine differential geometry (53A15) Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: Tensor generalizations of affine vector fields called symmetric and antisymmetric affine tensor fields are discussed as symmetry of spacetimes. We review the properties of the symmetric ones, which have been studied in earlier works, and investigate the properties of the antisymmetric ones, which are the main theme in this paper. It is shown that antisymmetric affine tensor fields are closely related to one-lower-rank antisymmetric tensor fields which are parallelly transported along geodesics. It is also shown that the number of linear independent rank-$p$ antisymmetric affine tensor fields in $n$ dimensions is bounded by $(n+1)!/p!(n-p)!$. We also derive the integrability conditions for antisymmetric affine tensor fields. Using the integrability conditions, we discuss the existence of antisymmetric affine tensor fields on various spacetimes.

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