Gluing theorems for complete anti-self-dual spaces (Q5957691)

The main purpose of this paper is to give some new and rather general gluing theorems for ASD (anti-self-dual) and Hermitian-ASD conformal structures, following the method suggested by \textit{A. Floer} [J. Differ. Geom. 33, 551-573 (1991; Zbl 0736.53046)]. One of the motivations for the present work was the desire of the authors to extend the basic gluing theorem to handle the case where the \((X_j,c_j)\) are conformally ASD orbifolds with isolated singular points. The authors also study Hermitian-ASD conformal structures on complex surfaces. These are particularly interesting because of their relation to scalar-flat Kähler geometry. The general results obtained in this paper are also illustrated with a simple application, showing that the blow-up of \(\mathbb{C}^2\) at an arbitrary set of points \(p_j\) admits scalar-flat Kähler metrics that are asymptotic to the Euclidean metric at \(\infty\).