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arxiv: gr-qc/9707003 · v1 · submitted 1997-07-02 · 🌀 gr-qc · nlin.SI· solv-int

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Lax pair tensors and integrable spacetimes

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keywords pairsystemtensorscanonicalintegrablekillinglatticespacetimes
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The use of Lax pair tensors as a unifying framework for Killing tensors of arbitrary rank is discussed. Some properties of the tensorial Lax pair formulation are stated. A mechanical system with a well-known Lax representation -- the three-particle open Toda lattice -- is geometrized by a suitable canonical transformation. In this way the Toda lattice is realized as the geodesic system of a certain Riemannian geometry. By using different canonical transformations we obtain two inequivalent geometries which both represent the original system. Adding a timelike dimension gives four-dimensional spacetimes which admit two Killing vector fields and are completely integrable.

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