Killing Tensors in Koutras-McIntosh Spacetimes
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Publication:6404319
DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC9509zbMATH Open1516.83015arXiv2207.03474MaRDI QIDQ6404319FDOQ6404319
Authors: Boris Kruglikov, Wijnand Steneker 
Publication date: 7 July 2022
Abstract: The Koutras-McIntosh family of metrics include conformally flat pp-waves and the Wils metric. It appeared in a paper of 1996 by Koutras-McIntosh as an example of a pure radiation spacetime without scalar curvature invariants or infinitesimal symmetries. Here we demonstrate that these metrics have no "hidden symmetries", by which we mean Killing tensors of low degrees. For the particular case of Wils metrics we show the nonexistence of Killing tensors up to degree 6. The technique we use is the geometric theory of overdetermined PDEs and the Cartan prolongation-projection method. Application of those allows to prove the nonexistence of polynomial in momenta integrals for the equation of geodesics in a mathematical rigorous way. Using the same technique we can completely classify all lower degree Killing tensors and, in particular, prove that for generic pp-waves all Killing tensors of degree 3 and 4 are reducible.
Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with constant coefficients (35N05)
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