A Rainich-like approach to the Killing-Yano tensors (Q1403992)

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A Rainich-like approach to the Killing-Yano tensors
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    A Rainich-like approach to the Killing-Yano tensors (English)
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    20 August 2003
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    The author has solved the problem that under what conditions a Killing tensor is the square of a Killing-Yano tensor? It is analoguous to that question studied by Rainich for Maxwell fields. Here it is shown that the principal 2-planes define a Maxwellian structure. It is also outlined how the result can be used in studying the spacetimes that admit these kind of first integrals of the geodesic equation.
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    Killing tensor
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    Maxwell fields
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    geodesic equation
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