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Example 1.
Find the Killing tensors of the metric g to order 4 (Note: The fourth order Killing tensor takes a long time to compute). This metric appears in Darboux, Theorie Generale des Surfaces III page 81.
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Example 2.
We use the keyword argument coefficientvariables to find the rank 3 Killing tensors for the metric g2 which are functions of alone.
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Example 3.
We use the keyword arguments ansatz and unknowns to find the rank 2 Killing tensors for the metric g3 which are independent of .
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Example 4.
We use the keyword arguments ansatz, unknowns and auxiliaryequations find the rank 2 Killing tensors for the metric g4 which are invariant under rotations in the plane.
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We use the commands GenerateSymmmetricTensor and DGzip to construct the general rank 2 symmetric tensor on
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The vector field is the infinitesimal generator for rotations in the plane.
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We use the commands LieDerivative and DGinfo to find the conditions under which is rotationally invariant.
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We find that that there are 4 rotationally invariant, rank 2 Killing tensors for the metric g4.
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Example 5.
We wish to determine the rank 2 Killing tensors for the metric for varying values of excluding the case
Because the parameter does not appear as a rational function in it is helpful to re-write the metric as , where satisfies the differential equation
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With the keyword argument parameters, the command KillingTensors returns a sequence of lists of Killing tensors and, as the last element of the sequence, the possible exceptional parameter values. For this example, the exceptional values of are:
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We see there are 2 cases.
Case 1.
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Case 2. (the generic case)
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Example 6.
With the keyword argument output = "pde", the defining partial differential equations for the Killing tensor are returned.
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Example 7.
We compute the Killing tensors for a connection. We use the keyword argument output = "general" to obtain the result as a single tensor depending on constants __ .
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Example 8.
The following metric g8 appears in the PhD thesis of R. P. Delong. We are able to explicitly compute all Killing tensors to order 4. The explicit lists are very long and so we simply display the number of Killing tensors at each order.
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