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CLOSED CONFORMAL VECTOR FIELDS ON PSEUDO-RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS D. A. CATALANO Received 1 March 2006; Revised 24 July 2006; Accepted 8 August 2006 We give here a geometric proof of the existence of certain local coordinates on a pseudo- Riemannian manifold admitting a closed conformal vector field. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction A vector field V on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M ,g ) is called conformal if Vg = 2λg (1.1) for a scalar field λ, where denotes the Lie derivative on M . It is easy to see that if V is locally a gradient field, then ( 1.1) is equivalent to ∇ V = λX for every vector field X. (1.2) X Here ∇ denotes the Levi-Civita connection of g . We call vector fields satisfying (1.2) closed conformal vector fields. They appear in the work of Fialkow [3] about conformal geodesics, in the works of Yano [7– 11] about concircular geometry in Riemannian man- ¨ ifolds, and in the works of Tashiro [6], Kerbrat [4], Kuhnel and Rademacher [5], and many other authors. If V is lightlike on (M ,g), then from (1.2), we get Xg (V, V) = 2g ∇ V, V = 2λg (X , V) = 0 (1.3) X for every vector field X . Thus λ ≡ 0 and V is parallel. About lightlike parallel vector fields, we have the following theorem. Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2006, Article ID 36545, Pages 1–8 DOI 10.1155/IJMMS/2006/36545 2 Closed conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds Theorem 1.1 (Brinkmann [2]). If (M ,g ) admits a lightlike parallel vector field V, then 1 2