New quasi-Einstein metrics on a two-sphere
Differential Geometry
2026-05-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We construct all axi-symmetric non-gradient -quasi-Einstein structures on a two-sphere. This includes the spatial cross-section of the extreme Kerr black hole horizon corresponding to , as well as a family of new regular metrics with given in terms of hypergeometric functions. We also show that in the case with vanishing cosmological constant the only orientable compact solution in dimension two is the flat torus, which proves that there are no compact surfaces with a metrisable affine connection with skew Ricci tensor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.04117,
title = {New quasi-Einstein metrics on a two-sphere},
author = {Alex Colling and Maciej Dunajski and Hari Kunduri and James Lucietti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04117},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
v2: minor edits, reference added. v3: minor edits, to appear in the Journal of Geometric Analysis