Geodesic deviation and first integrals of motion

DOI10.1063/1.525326zbMath0501.53018OpenAlexW2016398538MaRDI QIDQ3966722

Clara Zordan, Franco Salmistraro, Giacomo Caviglia

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525326

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsJacobi fieldsKilling vectorsfirst integralsKilling tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General relativity (83C99) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30)

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Dynamical symmetries: An approach to Jacobi fields and to constants of geodesic motion ⋮ Symmetries of space-time and geodesic symmetries ⋮ Symmetry generators for null geodesic motion ⋮ Conformal Killing tensors of order 2 for the Schwarzschild metric

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