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Thank you bndnchrs, but I was looking for an intuitive explanation as to why the Killing equation, given in terms of the covariant derivative, implies that the deformation generated by a Killing vector field preserves distances. For example, the definition using the Lie derivative (the Lie...

Hello, Your forum was very helpful in giving intuitive geometric explanations to various concepts from differential geometry, so I was hoping you could perhaps help me with the following. I'm interested in Killing vector fields. I understand that a tangent vector field X is a Killing vector...