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Killing vectors

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg30346] Killing vectors
• From: "Urs Schreiber" <Urs.Schreiber at uni-essen.de>
• Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 03:40:06 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: University of Essen, Germany
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I need to find Killing vectors of a given metric. Does anyone know
Mathematica packages (or algorithms in general) that do the trick? Killing's
equation is a coupled system of partial differential equations, so DSolve is
not of much help here (or is it?). The commutator of two Killing vectors may
give a new one. But when to stop searching?

Thanks for any help,
Urs Schreiber

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Urs.Schreiber at uni-essen.de