Integrable cases of the Einstein equations (Q1969105)

The authors of this very interesting paper study the existence of some explicit solutions of the Einstein equations. For this purpose the equations are presented in Hamiltonian form with a 4-dimensional phase space. Some new examples are studied (by the Hamiltonian formalism) where full cohomogeneity one Einstein system is explicitly integrable (in the sense of existence of generalized first integrals) in the Ricci-flat case. It is proved that if the system is subject to an additional constraint then it becomes integrable in the Ricci-flat case. This implies that there exists a function \(F\) on phase space, functionally independent of the Hamiltonian, whose Poisson bracket with the Hamiltonian vanishes on the submanifold defined by the constraint. The Poisson bracket need not, however, vanish on all of phase space. The principal orbits are the product of two isotropy irreducible spaces, and the dimensions of the resulting Ricci-flat manifolds are ten or eleven. The constrained Hamiltonian system also yields examples of inhomogeneous complete Ricci-flat metrics if one replaces the non-collapsing isotropy irreducible factor by inhomogeneous Einstein manifolds. The authors make use of similar ideas to find an integrable system of Einstein equations in dimension twenty seven. The manifolds in this case are foliated by hypersurfaces which are the total spaces of a certain family of \(T^8\)-bundles over a product of nine copies of the complex projective line.