Third rank Killing tensors in general relativity. The (1+1)-dimensional case

DOI10.1023/A:1026724824465zbMATH Open0993.83010arXivgr-qc/9807051OpenAlexW3100567667MaRDI QIDQ1808032FDOQ1808032

Max Karlovini, K. Rosquist

Publication date: 30 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Third rank Killing tensors in (1+1)-dimensional geometries are investigated and classified. It is found that a necessary and sufficient condition for such a geometry to admit a third rank Killing tensor can always be formulated as a quadratic PDE, of order three or lower, in a Kahler type potential for the metric. This is in contrast to the case of first and second rank Killing tensors for which the integrability condition is a linear PDE. The motivation for studying higher rank Killing tensors in (1+1)-geometries, is the fact that exact solutions of the Einstein equations are often associated with a first or second rank Killing tensor symmetry in the geodesic flow formulation of the dynamics. This is in particular true for the many models of interest for which this formulation is (1+1)-dimensional, where just one additional constant of motion suffices for complete integrability. We show that new exact solutions can be found by classifying geometries admitting higher rank Killing tensors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9807051

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zbMATH Keywords

Killing tensorssymmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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