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Complex structures of the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz with infinite topological type

Differential Geometry 2025-12-11 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we study the complex structures of complete hyperk\"ahler four-manifolds of infinite topological type arising from the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz. We show that for almost all complex structures in the hyperk\"ahler family, the manifold is biholomorphic to a hypersurface in C3\mathbb{C}^3 defined by an explicit entire function. For the remaining complex structures, we further prove that the manifold is biholomorphic to the minimal resolution of a singular surface in C3\mathbb{C}^3 under certain conditions. Thus, we partially extend LeBrun's celebrated work to the context of countably many punctures.

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@article{arxiv.2511.18836,
  title  = {Complex structures of the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz with infinite topological type},
  author = {Wenxin He and Bin Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18836},
  year   = {2025}
}

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