HyperKähler potentials in cohomogeneity two.

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2001.011MaRDI QIDQ2703579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Kobak, Andrew Swann

Publication date 7 March 2001

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0001024

zbMATH Keywords

coadjoint orbitsHyper-Kähler manifoldshyper-Kähler potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: A hyperK"ahler potential is a function rho that is a K"ahler potential for each complex structure compatible with the hyperK"ahler structure. Nilpotent orbits in a complex simple Lie algebra are known to carry hyperK"ahler metrics admitting such potentials. In this paper, we explicitly calculate the hyperK"ahler potential when the orbit is of cohomogeneity two. In some cases, we find that this structure lies in a one-parameter family of hyperK"ahler metrics with K"ahler potentials, generalising the Eguchi-Hanson metrics in dimension four.

Review text

Hyper-Kähler manifolds are Riemannian manifolds which are Kähler with respect to three complex structures \(I, J, K\) satisfying the quaternion relations. They occur naturally in many geometric and physical contexts, e.g. as moduli spaces of solutions for some types of variational problems or as target spaces for certain supersymmetric field theories. An important example is the hyper-Kähler structure on adjoint orbits of complex semisimple Lie groups \(G\), which was discovered by Kronheimer. The nilpotent orbits (i.e. orbits of a nilpotent element in the Lie algebra of \(G\)) admit a hyper-Kähler metric which is defined by a so-called hyper-Kähler potential, i.e. a simultaneous Kähler potential for the three complex structures. It follows that these orbits fiber over quaternionic Kähler manifolds of positive scalar curvature. The maximal compact subgroup \(K\) of \(G\) acts on the nilpotent orbit preserving the hyper-Kähler structure. For the minimal orbits this action is of cohomogeneity one and is well understood [see \textit{A. Dancer} and \textit{A. Swann}, J. Geom. Phys. 21, 218--230 (1997; Zbl 0909.53032)].NEWLINENEWLINE In the paper under review the case of cohomogeneity two is investigated. The main result is an explicit formula for the hyper-Kähler potential. It is also shown that there is only one \(K\)-invariant hyper-Kähler metric on the nilpotent \(G\)-orbit admitting a hyper-Kähler potential. The paper contains valuable new algebraic information concerning the cohomogeneity two nilpotent orbits. Using it, the calculation of the potential and the proof of the above uniqueness statement are reduced to explicit calculations in the cases \(G = \text{SL}(2)\) and \(G = \text{SO}(4)\).

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