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A homogeneous Gibbons-Hawking ansatz and Blaschke products

Differential Geometry 2010-08-27 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

A homogeneous Gibbons-Hawking ansatz is described, leading to 4-dimensional hyperkahler metrics with homotheties. In combination with Blaschke products on the unit disc in the complex plane, this ansatz allows one to construct infinite-dimensional families of such hyperkahler metrics that are, in a suitable sense, complete. Our construction also gives rise to incomplete metrics on 3-dimensional contact manifolds that induce complete Carnot-Caratheodory distances.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0086,
  title  = {A homogeneous Gibbons-Hawking ansatz and Blaschke products},
  author = {Hansjörg Geiges and Jesús Gonzalo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0086},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures