Calderbank, D.M.J. and Pedersen, H. (2002) Selfdual Einstein metrics with torus symmetry. Journal of Differential Geometry, 60 (3). pp. 485-521. ISSN 0022-040X
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It is well-known that any 4-dimensional hyperkähler metric with two commuting Killing fields may be obtained explicitly, via the Gibbons-Hawking Ansatz, from a harmonic function invariant under a Killing field on • 3. In this paper, we find all selfdual Einstein metrics of nonzero scalar curvature with two commuting Killing fields. They are given explicitly in terms of a local eigenfunction of the Laplacian on the hyperbolic plane. We discuss the relation of this construction to a class of selfdual spaces found by Joyce, and some Einstein-Weyl spaces found by Ward, and then show that certain 'multipole' hyperbolic eigenfunctions yield explicit formulae for the quaternion-kähler quotients of • Pm—1 by an (m — 2)-torus studied by Galicki and Lawson. As a consequence we are able to place the well-known cohomogeneity one metrics, the quaternion-kähler quotients of • P2 (and noncompact analogues), and the more recently studied selfdual Einstein Hermitian metrics in a unified framework, and give new complete examples.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Academic Units: | The University of York > Mathematics (York) |
| Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2009 14:23 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2009 14:23 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | International Press |
| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/6573 |
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