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Connection of the existence of Killing-Yano tensor and Killing tensor

Stephani states that in 4 dimensions a spacetime admits a non-reducible Killing-Yano tensor only if the Weyl tensor either is of Petrov type D or vanishes. Does this imply that the spacetime also ...
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Why are they called "screen" distributions?

If $V$ is a vector space and $g$ is a symmetric degenerate bilinear form on $V$, every complementary subspace to the radical ${\rm rad}(V)$ is called a "screen subspace" of $V$: we have an orthogonal ...
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