Einstein metrics, hypercomplex structures and the Toda field equation (Q5936474)

In this paper, the authors obtain explicitly all solutions of the SU\((\infty)\) Toda field equation with the property that the associated Einstein-Weyl space admits a 2-sphere of divergence-free shear-free geodesic congruences (particular foliations generated by certain weightless unit vector fields). Such solutions depend on an arbitrary holomorphic function, and give rise to new hyper-Kähler and self-dual Einstein metrics whose isometry group is one-dimensional. Each of these metrics admits a compatible hypercomplex structure with respect to which the symmetries are triholomorphic.