(Conformal) Killing vectors and their associated bivectors

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/14/318zbMATH Open1006.83009arXivgr-qc/0203022OpenAlexW2006479913MaRDI QIDQ3146151FDOQ3146151

Authors: Garry Ludwig 

Publication date: 6 March 2003

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Fayos and Sopuerta have recently set up a formalism for studying vacuum spacetimes with an isometry, a formalism that is centred around the bivector corresponding to the Killing vector and that adapts the tetrad to the bivector. Steele has generalized their approach to include the homothetic case. Here, we generalize this formalism to arbitrary spacetimes and to homothetic and conformal Killing vectors but do not insist on aligning the tetrad with the bivector. The most efficient way to use the formalism to find conformal Killing vectors (proper or not) of a given spacetime is to combine it with the notion of a preferred tetrad. A metric by Kimura is used as an illustrative example.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203022

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vectorsbivectorstetradconformal vectorsarbitrary spacetimemetric of Kimura

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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• Killing tensors from conformal Killing vectors

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