Abstract
The authors extend an idea due to Woodhouse (1975) to give a coordinate-free characterisation of the orthogonal separation of one coordinate for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, in terms of an involutive family of Killing tensors. The coordinates can be computed from the Killing tensors.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2003-2011 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1 1982 |