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$mathcal{I}$-Preserving Diffeomorphisms of Lorentzian Manifolds

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 نشر من قبل David McNutt
 تاريخ النشر 2019
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We examine the existence of one parameter groups of diffeomorphisms whose infinitesimal generators annihilate all scalar polynomial curvature invariants through the application of the Lie derivative, known as $mathcal{I}$-preserving diffeomorphisms. Such mappings are a generalization of isometries and appear to be related to nil-Killing vector fields, for which the associated Lie derivative of the metric yields a nilpotent rank two tensor. We show that the set of nil-Killing vector fields contains Lie algebras, although the Lie algebras may be infinite and can contain elements which are not $mathcal{I}$-preserving diffeomorphisms. We then study the curvature structure of a general Lorenztian manifold, or spacetime, to show that $mathcal{I}$-preserving diffeomorphism will only exists for the $mathcal{I}$-degenerate spacetimes and to determine when the $mathcal{I}$-preserving diffeomorphisms are generated by nil-Killing vector fields. We identify necessary and sufficient conditions for the degenerate Kundt spacetimes to admit an additional $mathcal{I}$-preserving diffeomorphism and conclude with an application to the class of Kundt spacetimes with constant scalar polynomial curvature invariants to show that a finite transitive Lie algebra of nil-Killing vector fields always exists for these spacetimes.



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