In mathematics, a Killing vector field (often called a Killing field), named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian...
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Einstein field equations. Mathematically a Killing horizon is a null hypersurface defined by the vanishing of the norm of a Killing vector field (both are...
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conformal Killing vector field on a manifold of dimension n with (pseudo) Riemannian metric g {\displaystyle g} (also called a conformal Killing vector, CKV...
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after Wilhelm Killing: Killing tensor, a generalization of a Killing vector field Killing vector field or Killing field, a vector field on a Riemannian...
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Look up killing field or Killing Fields in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Killing field may also refer to: Killing Fields, a number of sites in Cambodia...
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mathematics, a Killing tensor or Killing tensor field is a generalization of a Killing vector, for symmetric tensor fields instead of just vector fields. It is...
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Hamiltonian Killing vector field, a vector field on a Riemannian manifold associated with a symmetry Solenoidal vector field, a vector field with zero divergence...
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Isotropic coordinates (section Killing vector fields)
thus, this Killing vector field is hypersurface orthogonal. The fact that the spacetime admits an irrotational timelike Killing vector field is in fact...
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In vector calculus, a complex lamellar vector field is a vector field which is orthogonal to a family of surfaces. In the broader context of differential...
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A projective vector field (projective) is a smooth vector field on a semi Riemannian manifold (p.ex. spacetime) M {\displaystyle M} whose flow preserves...
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thus, this Killing vector field is hypersurface orthogonal. The fact that our spacetime admits an irrotational timelike Killing vector field is in fact...
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Spacetime symmetries (section Killing symmetry)
{\mathcal {L}}_{Y}]T.} A Killing vector field is one of the most important types of symmetries and is defined to be a smooth vector field X that preserves the...
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In Riemannian geometry, a Jacobi field is a vector field along a geodesic γ {\displaystyle \gamma } in a Riemannian manifold describing the difference...
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spacetime is static if it admits a global, non-vanishing, timelike Killing vector field K {\displaystyle K} which is irrotational, i.e., whose orthogonal...
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S2CID 121548146. Killing equation Killing form Killing–Hopf theorem Killing horizon Killing spinor Killing tensor Killing vector field Levi decomposition...
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I(\rho )} is the index of the representation. Casimir invariant Killing vector field Kirillov 2008, p. 102. Borel 2001, p. 5 Fulton, William; Harris,...
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Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability Killing horizon, a null surface on which there is a Killing vector field Particle horizon, the maximum distance...
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Stress–energy tensor (section Einstein field equations)
is the gravitational force field.[citation needed] Consequently, if ξ μ {\textstyle \xi ^{\mu }} is any Killing vector field, then the conservation law...
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kind of spinor field related to Killing vector fields and Killing tensors. If M {\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}} is a manifold with a Killing spinor, then...
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In mathematics, Salomon Bochner proved in 1946 that any Killing vector field of a compact Riemannian manifold with negative Ricci curvature must be zero...
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on the spacetime metric. In a stationary spacetime with timelike Killing vector field ξ {\displaystyle \xi } , the temperature T {\displaystyle T} satisfies...
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electromagnetic field, a Killing vector field does not necessarily preserve the electric and magnetic fields. Affine vector field Conformal vector field Curvature...
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it can be regarded as a constant vector field. In particular, the spin angular velocity is a Killing vector field belonging to an element of the Lie...
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Gödel metric (section Killing vectors)
t 0 {\displaystyle t=t_{0}} admit a Bianchi III (c.f. the fourth Killing vector field). This can be rewritten as the symmetry group containing three-dimensional...
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spacetime can be defined as a spacetime which possesses a timelike Killing vector field. The following discussion is an expanded and simplified version of...
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change of a tensor field (including scalar functions, vector fields and one-forms), along the flow defined by another vector field. This change is coordinate...
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linearly independent Killing vector fields. Indeed, in the Cartesian chart we can readily find ten linearly independent Killing vector fields, generating respectively...
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spacetime, a spacetime having a global, non-vanishing, timelike Killing vector field which is irrotational Statics, a branch of physics concerned with...
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relativity, specifically in the Einstein field equations, a spacetime is said to be stationary if it admits a Killing vector that is asymptotically timelike....
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by similarity reduction. Affine vector field Conformal Killing vector field Curvature collineation Killing vector field Matter collineation Spacetime symmetries...
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