All toric Hermitian ALE gravitational instantons
Differential Geometry
2025-10-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We prove that the only smooth, Ricci flat, ALE instanton with a toric Hermitian non-K\"ahler structure is the Eguchi-Hanson instanton. The proof is analogous to the classification of toric Hermitian ALF instantons by Biquard and Gauduchon, although we avoid the use of toric K\"ahler geometry and instead perform a direct global analysis of the Tod form of the metric in Weyl-Papapetrou coordinates. This supports a conjecture by Gibbons and Bando-Kasue-Nakajima which states that any Ricci flat ALE instanton is self-dual.
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@article{arxiv.2510.09291,
title = {All toric Hermitian ALE gravitational instantons},
author = {Bernardo Araneda and James Lucietti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09291},
year = {2025}
}
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22 pages