Killing tensors and conformal Killing tensors from conformal Killing vectors

Killing Tensors and Conformal Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors

Koutras has proposed some methods to construct reducible proper conformal Killing tensors and Killing tensors (which are, in general, irreducible) when a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors exist in a given space. We give the completely general result demonstrating that this severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary. In addition we correct and extend some results concerning Ki...

Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors

Some years ago Koutras presented a method of constructing a conformal Killing tensor from a pair of orthogonal conformal Killing vectors. When the vector associated with the conformal Killing tensor is a gradient, a Killing tensor (in general irreducible) can then be constructed. In this paper it is shown that the severe restriction of orthogonality is unnecessary and thus it is possible that m...

Irreducible Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Vectors

S. Brian EDGAR †, Rafaelle RANI ‡ and Alan BARNES § † Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden S581-83 E-mail: [email protected] ‡ Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] § School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingh...

Killing Tensors from Conformal Killing Ve tors

Integrability Conditions for Killing-Yano Tensors and Conformal Killing-Yano Tensors

The integrability conditions for the existence of a conformal Killing-Yano tensor of arbitrary order are worked out in all dimensions and expressed in terms of the Weyl tensor. As a consequence, the integrability conditions for the existence of a Killing-Yano tensor are also obtained. By means of such conditions, it is shown that in certain Einstein spaces one can use a conformal Killing-Yano t...