Toric hyper-Kähler manifolds with quaternionic Kähler bases and supergravity solutions (Q2568931)

In [Math. Ann. 289, No. 3, 421--450 (1991; Zbl 0711.53051)] \textit{A. Swann} showed a way how to extend a quaternionic Kähler metric in the dimension \(D= 4n\) to a quaternionic Kähler and hyper-Kähler metric in dimension \(D= 4(n+ 1)\), while the quaternionic Kähler metrics in dimension \(D= 4\) with two commuting \(U(1)\) isometries (called toric Kähler) have been classified by \textit{D. M. J. Calderbank} and \textit{H. Pedersen} [J. Differ. Geom. 60, No. 3, 485--521 (2002; Zbl 1067.53034)] in terms of solutions \(F\) of the equation \(F_{\rho\rho}+ F_{\eta\eta}= 3F/4\rho^2\). The present paper is focusing on the construction of 8-dimensional toric hyper-Kähler metrics by applying Swann's method to Calderbank-Pedersens' \(F\) in dimension \(D= 4\). Recalling that the Calderbank-Pedersen spaces are related to Einstein-Weyl structures, which one calls Jones-Tod correspondence [\textit{P. E. Jones} and \textit{K. P. Tod}, Classical Quantum Gravity 2, 565--577 (1985; Zbl 0575.53042)] and also that a subfamily of Einstein-Weyl structures is described by the continuum limit of Toda structure equations \((e^U)_{ZZ}+ U_{XX}= 0\), the authors describe in section 2 the Joise spaces, which are the most general selfdual conformal structures with two surfaces orthogonal commuting Killing vectors. The underlying Toda structure of the Joise spaces corresponding to the trajectories of its Killing vectors is revealed in the following sections by use of the Jones-Tod correspondence.