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The Rainich problem for Killing-Yano tensors posed by Collinson [1] is solved. In intermediate steps, we first obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for a 2+2 almost-product structure to determine the principal 2–planes of a Killing-Yano tensor. Then we give the additional conditions on a symmetric Killing tensor for it to be the square of a Killing-Yano tensor. We also analyze a similar problem for the conformal Killing-Yano tensors. Our results show that, in both cases, the principal 2–planes define a Maxwellian structure. The associated Maxwell fields are obtained and we outline how this approach is of interest in studying the spacetimes that admit these kind of first integrals of the geodesic equation.
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Ferrando, J.J., Sáez, J.A. A Rainich-Like Approach to the Killing-Yano Tensors. General Relativity and Gravitation 35, 1191–1208 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024493607191
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