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We give a classification of toric, Hermitian, Ricci flat, ALF Riemannian metrics in dimension 4, including metrics with conical singularities. The only smooth examples are on one hand the hyperKaehler ALF metrics, on the other hand, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Olivier Biquard , Paul Gauduchon

Toric Ricci--flat metrics in dimension four correspond to certain holomorphic vector bundles over a twistor space. We construct these bundles explicitly, by exhibiting and characterising their patching matrices, for the five--parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-16 Maciej Dunajski , Paul Tod

We establish existence and uniqueness results for asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) and asymptotically locally flat (ALF) gravitational instantons. In particular, we prove the existence of a unique, Ricci-flat, toric ALE and ALF…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti

The Chen-Teo gravitational instanton is an asymptotically flat, toric, Ricci flat family of metrics on $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2\setminus S^1$, that provides a counterexample to the classical Euclidean Black Hole Uniqueness conjecture. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-20 Steffen Aksteiner , Lars Andersson

This paper is the sequel of our previous article "From ALE to ALF gravitational instantons", where we constructed ALF hyperkahler metrics on minimal resolutions of dihedral Kleinian singularities. In the present article we generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-12 Hugues Auvray

In this paper, we construct families of gravitational instantons of type ALG, ALG*, ALH and ALH* using a gluing construction. Away from a finite set of exceptional points, the metric collapses with bounded curvature to a quotient of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Willem Adriaan Salm

We construct large families of new collapsing hyperk\"ahler metrics on the K3 surface. The limit space is the quotient of a flat 3-torus by an involution. Away from finitely many exceptional points the collapse occurs with bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Lorenzo Foscolo

We establish sharp lower bounds for the mass of asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) and asymptotically locally flat (ALF) toric 4-manifolds, in terms of equilibrium geometries consisting of gravitational instantons. More precisely, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Aghil Alaee , Marcus Khuri , Hari Kunduri

Uniqueness results for asymptotically locally flat and asymptotically flat $S^1$-symmetric gravitational instantons are proved using a divergence identity of the type used in uniqueness proofs for static black holes, combined with results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Steffen Aksteiner , Lars Andersson , Mattias Dahl , Gustav Nilsson , Walter Simon

There are two known classes of gravitational instantons with quadratic volume growth at infinity, known as type ALG and ALG$^*$. Gravitational instantons of type ALG were previously classified by Chen-Chen. In this paper, we prove a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Gao Chen , Jeff Viaclovsky

This is our second paper in a series to study gravitational instantons, i.e. complete hyperk\"aler 4-manifolds with faster than quadratic curvature decay. We prove two main theorems: 1.The asymptotic rate of gravitational instantons to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Gao Chen , Xiuxiong Chen

We construct and classify, in the case of two complex dimensions, the possible tangent cones at points of limit spaces of non-collapsed sequences of K\"ahler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Martin de Borbon

We prove the instability of conformally K\"ahler, compact or ALF Einstein 4-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature which are not half conformally flat. This applies to all the known examples of gravitational instantons which are not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Olivier Biquard , Tristan Ozuch

In this paper we give methods to classify the central singularities of Cayley-Hamilton smooth orders up to smooth equivalence in arbitrary central dimension. We prove that there is just one type in dimension 3 (the conifold singularity),…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Raf Bocklandt , Lieven Le Bruyn , Geert Van de Weyer

In this paper, we study gravitational instantons (i.e., complete hyperk\"aler 4-manifolds with faster than quadratic curvature decay). We prove three main theorems: 1.Any gravitational instanton must have known end----ALE, ALF, ALG or ALH.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Gao Chen , Xiuxiong Chen

We construct ALE Calabi-Yau metrics with cone singularities along the exceptional set of resolutions of $\mathbb{C}^n / \Gamma$ with non-positive discrepancies. In particular, this includes the case of the minimal resolution of two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Martin de Borbon , Cristiano Spotti

We prove Torelli-type uniqueness theorems for both ALG$^*$ gravitational instantons and ALG gravitational instantons which are of order $2$. That is, the periods uniquely characterize these types of gravitational instantons up to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Gao Chen , Jeff Viaclovsky , Ruobing Zhang

We construct a new infinite family of 4-dimensional isolated symplectic singularities with trivial local fundamental group, answering a question of Beauville raised in 2000. Three constructions are presented for this family: (1) as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Gwyn Bellamy , Cédric Bonnafé , Baohua Fu , Daniel Juteau , Paul Levy , Eric Sommers

It has long been conjectured that the Euclidean Schwarzschild and Euclidean Kerr instantons are the only non-trivial asymptotically flat (AF) gravitational instantons. In this letter, we show that this conjecture is false by explicitly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-07 Yu Chen , Edward Teo

We classify finite energy harmonic 2-forms on the asymptotically flat gravitational instanton constructed by Chen and Teo. We prove that every $U(1)$-bundle admits a unique anti-self-dual Yang-Mills instanton (up to gauge equivalence) which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Thomas John Baird , Hari K. Kunduri
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