Projective vector fields on Lorentzian manifolds

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-105

  Romero, Alfonso ^a   Sánchez, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affine and Killing vector fields; Bochner's technique; Lorentzian manifolds; Projective vector fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141453429     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020308012870     Document Type: Article

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