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Killing-Yano tensors in general relativity

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It is shown that space-times admitting more than one independent Killing-Yano tensor belong to a small collection of highly idealised space-times. A new characterization of Robertson-Walker space-times arises as a corollary of the main theorem.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, AB9 2TY, Aberdeen, Scotland

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Hall, G.S. Killing-Yano tensors in general relativity. Int J Theor Phys 26, 71–81 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00672392

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