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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 mm-quasi-Einstein structures on a two-sphere. This includes the spatial cross-section of the extreme Kerr black hole horizon corresponding to m=2m=2, as well as a family of new regular metrics with m2m\neq 2 given in terms of hypergeometric functions. We also show that in the case m=1m=-1 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:11:40.301Z