On Killing tensors on Riemannian symmetric spaces
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| author | Matveev, Vladimir Nikolayevsky, Yuri |
| author_facet | Matveev, Vladimir Nikolayevsky, Yuri |
| contents | A Killing tensor field on a Riemannian space corresponds to an integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in momenta. A Killing tensor field is called decomposable if it is a polynomial in Killing vector fields. In this paper, we first prove that the study of Killing tensor fields on symmetric spaces can be reduced to the case of compact irreducible ones. Then we introduce the class of top slot Killing tensor fields. We obtain an explicit and elegant description of such tensor fields and prove that the quadratic Killing tensor fields are spanned by the top-slot ones. We also show that quadratic Killing tensor fields on the quaternionic projective space and on the Cayley projective space are spanned by the indecomposable ones constructed in our earlier paper and the decomposable ones. This completes the classification of quadratic Killing tensor fields on Riemannian symmetric spaces of rank one. |
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| spellingShingle | On Killing tensors on Riemannian symmetric spaces Matveev, Vladimir Nikolayevsky, Yuri Differential Geometry Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 53C35, 53B20, 53D25 A Killing tensor field on a Riemannian space corresponds to an integral of the geodesic flow polynomial in momenta. A Killing tensor field is called decomposable if it is a polynomial in Killing vector fields. In this paper, we first prove that the study of Killing tensor fields on symmetric spaces can be reduced to the case of compact irreducible ones. Then we introduce the class of top slot Killing tensor fields. We obtain an explicit and elegant description of such tensor fields and prove that the quadratic Killing tensor fields are spanned by the top-slot ones. We also show that quadratic Killing tensor fields on the quaternionic projective space and on the Cayley projective space are spanned by the indecomposable ones constructed in our earlier paper and the decomposable ones. This completes the classification of quadratic Killing tensor fields on Riemannian symmetric spaces of rank one. |
| title | On Killing tensors on Riemannian symmetric spaces |
| topic | Differential Geometry Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 53C35, 53B20, 53D25 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27950 |