Symmetries of Spacetimes and Riemannian Manifolds

This text provides information on metric (i.e. Killing, homothetic and conformal), connection (i.e. affine, conformal and projective), curvature collineations and curvature inheritance symmetries. It attempts to present not only a comprehensive account of a very large number of papers on symmetries of spacetimes and Riemannian manifolds, but also the Lie group/algebra structures of symmetry vectors, their kinematics/dynamics, compact hypersurfaces (dealing with the initial value problem in general relativity) and lightlike hypersurfaces. This book also contains information on symmetries of Kaehler, contact and globally framed manifolds.