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U(1) x U(1) Quaternionic Metrics from Harmonic Superspace

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We construct, using harmonic superspace and the quaternionic quotient approach, a quaternionic-K\"ahler extension of the most general two centres hyper-K\"ahler metric. It possesses U(1)×U(1)U(1)\times U(1) isometry, contains as special cases the quaternionic-K\"ahler extensions of the Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson metrics and exhibits an extra one-parameter freedom which disappears in the hyper-K\"ahler limit. Some emphasis is put on the relation between this class of quaternionic-K\"ahler metrics and self-dual Weyl solutions of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations. The relation between our explicit results and the recent general ansatz of Calderbank and Pedersen for quaternionic-K\"ahler metrics with U(1)×U(1)U(1)\times U(1) isometries is traced in detail.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0110280,
  title  = {U(1) x U(1) Quaternionic Metrics from Harmonic Superspace},
  author = {Pierre-Yves Casteill and Evgeny Ivanov and Galliano Valent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0110280},
  year   = {2009}
}

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40 pages,0 figure Minor corrected typos

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