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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

This is our third paper in a series on the gravitational instantons. In this paper, we classify ALG and ALH gravitational instantons. In ALG case, we extend Hein's construction slightly and show that it's the only ALG gravitational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Gao Chen , Xiuxiong Chen

We obtain $D_k$ ALF gravitational instantons by a gluing construction which captures, in a precise and explicit fashion, their interpretation as non-linear superpositions of the moduli space of centred $SU(2)$ monopoles, equipped with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Bernd Schroers , Michael Singer

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

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 give a simple and uniform construction of essentially all known deformation classes of gravitational instantons with ALF, ALG or ALH asymptotics and nonzero injectivity radius. We also construct new ALH Ricci flat metrics asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Olivier Biquard , Vincent Minerbe

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 showed that a sequence of ALH*-gravitational instantons from pairs consisting of a weak del Pezzo surface and a smooth anti-canonical divisor towards a large complex structure limit introduced by Collins, Jacobs and the first author…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Yu-Shen Lin , Ryosuke Takahashi

This note extends the construction of $D_{k}$ ALF gravitational instantons in Schroers--Singer to a new case where the nonlinear superposition is given by the $D_{1}$ Atiyah--Hitchin metric and $k-1$ copies of $A_{0}$ Taub-NUT metrics. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Xuwen Zhu

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

This is the first of two papers which together prove that the $12$-parameter family of parabolic $SU(2)$-Hitchin moduli spaces on the four-punctured sphere are all ALG gravitational instantons of type D4, and hence are asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Laura Fredrickson , Rafe Mazzeo , Jan Swoboda , Hartmut Weiss

For an asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) or asymptotically locally flat (ALF) gravitational instanton $(M,g)$ with toric symmetry, we express the signature of $(M,g)$ directly in terms of its rod structure. Applying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Gustav Nilsson

We discuss four-dimensional "spatially homogeneous" gravitational instantons. These are self-dual solutions of Euclidean vacuum Einstein's equations with potentially non-vanishing cosmological constant. They are endowed with a product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 F. Bourliot , J. Estes , P. M. Petropoulos , Ph. Spindel

We apply the techniques developed in our previous article to describe some interesting families of ALF gravitational instantons with conical singularities. In particular, we completely understand the 5-dimensional family of Chen-Teo metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Olivier Biquard , Paul Gauduchon

We construct eight-dimensional gravitational instantons by solving appropriate self-duality equations for the spin-connection. The particular gravitational instanton we present has $Spin(7)$ holonomy and, in a sense, it is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Bakas , E. Floratos , A. Kehagias

We investigate the asymptotic geometry of Hermitian non-K\"ahler Ricci-flat metrics with finite $\int|Rm|^2$ at infinity. Specifically, we prove: 1. Any such metric is asymptotic to an ALE, ALF-A, AF, skewed special Kasner, ALH* model at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Mingyang Li

We present an account of the ADHM construction of instantons on Euclidean space-time $\mathbb{R}^4$ from the point of view of noncommutative geometry. We recall the main ingredients of the classical construction in a coordinate algebra…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Simon Brain , Walter D. van Suijlekom

A classification result for Ricci-flat anti-self-dual asymptotically locally Euclidean 4-manifolds is obtained: they are either hyperk\"ahler (one of the gravitational instantons classified by Kronheimer), or they are a cyclic quotient of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Evan P. Wright

All known gravitational instantons with $\Lambda > 0$ ($S^4, CP^2, S^2 \times S^2$ and $CP # \overline{CP}^2$) are described. They are all special cases of the Taub-NUT-$\Lambda$ local solution. Hence they are Type D and are locally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Don N. Page

We have been able to observe directly extended instantons on the lattice, with a new method that does not require dislocations to measure them, and where we do not perform cooling. We showed, based on the simple Abelian Higgs model in $1+1$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Mendel , G. Nolte
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