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arxiv: math/0105263 · v1 · submitted 2001-05-31 · 🧮 math.DG · gr-qc· math-ph· math.MP

Selfdual Einstein metrics with torus symmetry

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It is well known that any 4-dimensional hyperkahler 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 R^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-kahler quotients of HP(m-1) by an (m-2)-torus first studied by Galicki and Lawson. As a consequence we are able to place the well-known cohomogeneity one metrics, the quaternion-kahler quotients of HP(2) (and noncompact analogues), and the more recently studied selfdual Einstein hermitian metrics in a unified framework, and give new complete examples.

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