Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: This note describes how to characterize and normalize an axial Killing field on a general Riemannian geometry or four-dimensional Lorentzian geometry. No global assumptions are necessary, such as that the orbits of the Killing field all have period 2 π . Rather, any Killing field that vanishes at at least one point necessarily has the expected global properties.
Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity
Authors: Christopher Beetle, Shawn Wilder
Institutions: Florida Atlantic University, Roosevelt University
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2018704455