Curvature collineation

A curvature collineation (often abbreviated to CC) is vector field which preserves the Riemann tensor in the sense that,

$\mathcal{L}_X R^a{}_{bcd}=0$

where R^a_bcd are the components of the Riemann tensor. The set of all smooth curvature collineations forms a Lie algebra under the Lie bracket operation (if the smoothness condition is dropped, the set of all curvature collineations need not form a Lie algebra). The Lie algebra is denoted by CC(M) and may be infinite-dimensional. Every affine vector field is a curvature collineation.

See also

• Conformal vector field
• Homothetic vector field
• Killing vector field
• Matter collineation
• Spacetime symmetries