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Hyperkaehler Marriage of the two sphere with the hyperbolic space

Differential Geometry 2025-04-29 v1 Complex Variables Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

The Eguchi-Hanson metric is a natural metric on the total space of the cotangent bundle TCP(1)T^*\mathbb{CP}(1) of the complex projective line CP(1)S2\mathbb{CP}(1) \simeq \mathbb{S}^2, which extends the Fubini-Study metric of CP(1)\mathbb{CP}(1). By virtue of the Mostow decomposition theorem, TCP(1)T^*\mathbb{CP}(1) is isomorphic, as SU(2)SU(2)-equivariant fiber bundle over CP(1)\mathbb{CP}(1), to a complex (co-)adjoint orbit of SL(2,C)SL(2, \mathbb{C}). In fact, this complex (co-)adjoint orbit is fibered over CP(1)S2\mathbb{CP}(1)\simeq \mathbb{S}^2 with each fiber isomorphic to the hyperbolic disc H2\mathbb{H}^2. In this paper, we are interested in the complex structure inherited on the hyperbolic disc H2\mathbb{H}^2 by the hyperk\"ahler extension of the 22-sphere. Contrary to what is generally believed, we show that it differs from the natural complex structure of H2C\mathbb{H}^2\subset \mathbb{C} inherited from its embedding in C\mathbb{C}. In other words, the embedding of H2\mathbb{H}^2 with its Hermitian-symmetric structure into the hyperk\"ahler manifold TCP(1)T^*\mathbb{CP}(1) is not holomorphic.

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@article{arxiv.2504.19945,
  title  = {Hyperkaehler Marriage of the two sphere with the hyperbolic space},
  author = {Alice Barbora Tumpach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19945},
  year   = {2025}
}