“Killing Vectors”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

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Killing Vectors

释义

Killing Vectors

If any set of points is displaced by where all distance relationships are unchanged (i.e., there is an Isometry), then the Vector field is called a Killing vector.

(1)

so let

(2)

(3)



			(4)

where

is the Lie Derivative. An ordinary derivative can be replaced with a covariant derivative in aLie Derivative, so we can take as the definition

(5)

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which gives Killing's Equation

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A Killing vector

satisfies

(8)

(9)

(10)

where

is the Ricci Tensor and

is the Riemann Tensor.

A 2-sphere with Metric

(11)

has three Killing vectors, given by the angular momentum operators

			(12)
			(13)
			(14)

The Killing vectors in Euclidean 3-space are

			(15)
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			(19)
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In Minkowski Space, there are 10 Killing vectors

			(21)
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			(23)
			(24)

The first group is Translation, the second Rotation, and the final corresponds to a ``boost

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