Symmetric Killing tensors on nilmanifolds
arXiv:1811.09187 · doi:10.24033/bsmf.2811
Abstract
We study left-invariant symmetric Killing 2-tensors on 2-step nilpotent Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant Riemannian metric, and construct genuine examples, which are not linear combinations of parallel tensors and symmetric products of Killing vector fields.
24 pages, v2 includes minor improvements