Twistor spinors and gravitational instantons

DOI10.1007/BF01815523MaRDI QIDQ2563436zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wolfgang Kühnel, Hans-Bert Rademacher

Publication date 12 December 1996

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01815523

zbMATH Keywords

Eguchi-Hanson metrichalf-conformally flat metricstwistor spinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Review text

The authors construct a complete Riemannian metric on the four-dimensional real vector space \(R\) which carries a two-dimensional space of twistor spinors having a common zero point. This metric is half conformally flat, but not conformally flat. Their construction uses a conformal completion at infinity of the Eguchi-Hanson metric on the exterior of a closed ball in \(R\). Contents include: an introduction; the Eguchi-Hanson metric; half-conformally flat metrics admitting twistor spinors with zeros. The paper concludes with a list of references containing twenty items.

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