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Harmonic forms on ALF gravitational instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We study the space of square-integrable harmonic forms over ALF gravitational instantons of type AK1A _{ K -1 } and of type DKD _K . We first calculate its dimension making use of a result by Hausel, Hunsicker and Mazzeo which relates the Hodge cohomology of a gravitational instanton MM to the singular cohomology of a particular compactification XMX _M of MM. We then exhibit an explicit basis, exact for AK1A _{ K -1 } and approximate for DKD _K , and interpret geometrically the relations between MM, XMX _M and their cohomologies.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.2864,
  title  = {Harmonic forms on ALF gravitational instantons},
  author = {Guido Franchetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2864},
  year   = {2015}
}
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