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2017 Prolongation of symmetric Killing tensors and commuting symmetries of the Laplace operator
Jean-Philippe Michel, Petr Somberg, Josef Šilhan
Rocky Mountain J. Math. 47(2): 587-619 (2017). DOI: 10.1216/RMJ-2017-47-2-587
Abstract

We determine the space of commuting symmetries of the Laplace operator on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of constant curvature and derive its algebra structure. Our construction is based on Riemannian tractor calculus, allowing us to construct a prolongation of the differential system for symmetric Killing tensors. We also discuss some aspects of its relation to projective differential geometry.

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Jean-Philippe Michel, Petr Somberg, and Josef Šilhan "Prolongation of symmetric Killing tensors and commuting symmetries of the Laplace operator," Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 47(2), 587-619, (2017). https://doi.org/10.1216/RMJ-2017-47-2-587
Published: 2017
Vol.47 • No. 2 • 2017
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