Eigenvalues of Killing tensors and separable webs on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.021MaRDI QIDQ2473417zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Claudia M. Chanu, Giovanni Rastelli

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0612042, https://eudml.org/doc/55148, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/021/

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal separationgeodesic Hamiltonian-Jacobi equationL-systemsorthogonal separation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Abstract: Given a $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold of arbitrary signature, we illustrate an algebraic method for constructing the coordinate webs separating the geodesic Hamilton-Jacobi equation by means of the eigenvalues of $mleqn$ Killing two-tensors. Moreover, from the analysis of the eigenvalues, information about the possible symmetries of the web foliations arises. Three cases are examined: the orthogonal separation, the general separation, including non-orthogonal and isotropic coordinates, and the conformal separation, where Killing tensors are replaced by conformal Killing tensors. The method is illustrated by several examples and an application to the L-systems is provided.

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