scholarly journals Spectral properties of Killing vector fields of constant length

2019 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 103485
Author(s):  
Yuriĭ G. Nikonorov
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Constant Length

scholarly journals Killing vector fields of constant length on Riemannian manifolds

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Berestovskii ◽  
Yu. G. Nikonorov
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Constant Length

scholarly journals Clifford–Wolf translations of Finsler spaces

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoqiang Deng ◽  
Ming Xu
Keyword(s):  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Finsler Spaces ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Constant Length ◽  
Killing Field ◽  
Sufficient And Necessary Conditions ◽  
Group Of Isometries ◽  
Special Case

AbstractIn this paper, we study Clifford–Wolf translations of Finsler spaces. We give a characterization of those Clifford–Wolf translations generated by Killing vector fields. In particular, we show that there is a natural interrelation between the local one-parameter groups of Clifford–Wolf translations and the Killing vector fields of constant length. In the special case of homogeneous Randers spaces, we give some explicit sufficient and necessary conditions for a Killing vector field to have a constant length, in which case the local one-parameter group of isometries generated by the Killing field consist of Clifford–Wolf translations. Finally, we construct explicit examples to explain some of the results of this paper.

Spacetime symmetries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kachelriess
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Conservation Laws ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Geodesic Equation ◽  
Spacetime Symmetries ◽  
Tensor Fields ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Covariant Derivatives ◽  
Killing Equation

This chapter introduces tensor fields, covariant derivatives and the geodesic equation on a (pseudo-) Riemannian manifold. It discusses how symmetries of a general space-time can be found from the Killing equation, and how the existence of Killing vector fields is connected to global conservation laws.

scholarly journals Off-Shell Noether Currents and Potentials for First-Order General Relativity

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Merced Montesinos ◽  
Diego Gonzalez ◽  
Rodrigo Romero ◽  
Mariano Celada
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Arbitrary Vector ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
First Order ◽  
Direct Form ◽  
Definition Of

We report off-shell Noether currents obtained from off-shell Noether potentials for first-order general relativity described by n-dimensional Palatini and Holst Lagrangians including the cosmological constant. These off-shell currents and potentials are achieved by using the corresponding Lagrangian and the off-shell Noether identities satisfied by diffeomorphisms generated by arbitrary vector fields, local SO(n) or SO(n−1,1) transformations, ‘improved diffeomorphisms’, and the ‘generalization of local translations’ of the orthonormal frame and the connection. A remarkable aspect of our approach is that we do not use Noether’s theorem in its direct form. By construction, the currents are off-shell conserved and lead naturally to the definition of off-shell Noether charges. We also study what we call the ‘half off-shell’ case for both Palatini and Holst Lagrangians. In particular, we find that the resulting diffeomorphism and local SO(3,1) or SO(4) off-shell Noether currents and potentials for the Holst Lagrangian generically depend on the Immirzi parameter, which holds even in the ‘half off-shell’ and on-shell cases. We also study Killing vector fields in the ‘half off-shell’ and on-shell cases. The current theoretical framework is illustrated for the ‘half off-shell’ case in static spherically symmetric and Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker spacetimes in four dimensions.

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