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Do Killing-Yano Tensors Form A Lie Algebra?, David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jenny Traschen
Do Killing-Yano Tensors Form A Lie Algebra?, David Kastor, Sourya Ray, Jenny Traschen
David Kastor
Killing-Yano tensors are natural generalizations of Killing vectors. We investigate whether Killing-Yano tensors form a graded Lie algebra with respect to the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket. We find that this proposition does not hold in general, but that it does hold for constant curvature spacetimes. We also show that Minkowski and (anti)-deSitter spacetimes have the maximal number of Killing-Yano tensors of each rank and that the algebras of these tensors under the SN bracket are relatively simple extensions of the Poincare and (A)dS symmetry algebras.