Conserved quantities of spinning test particles in general relativity. I
This is the first of two papers devoted to conserved quantities of spinning test particles in general relativity. In this paper, a general scheme is described according to which these quantities can be investigated. It is shown that the general linear conserved quantity consists of a sum, the first term of which is the well known expression constructed from a Killing vector field, and the second term is of the form U kl S kl , where U* ab is a Killing-Yano tensor field, which is constrained by two additional equations.