Quaternion-Kähler four-manifolds and Przanowski's function

DOI10.1063/1.4758794MaRDI QIDQ2872306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Moritz Hoegner

Publication date 14 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3977

zbMATH Keywords

anti-self-dual Einstein manifoldsPrzanowski's equationquaternion-Kähler four-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Kähler-Einstein manifolds (32Q20) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Classical real and complex (co)homology in algebraic geometry (14F25)

Abstract: Quaternion-Kaehler four-manifolds, or equivalently anti-self-dual Einstein manifolds, are locally determined by one scalar function subject to Przanowski's equation. Using twistorial methods we construct a Lax Pair for Przanowski's equation, confirming its integrability. The Lee form of a compatible local complex structure, which one can always find, gives rise to a conformally invariant differential operator acting on sections of a line bundle. Special cases of the associated generalised Laplace operator are the conformal Laplacian and the linearised Przanowski operator. We provide recursion relations that allow us to construct cohomology classes on twistor space from solutions of the generalised Laplace equation. Conversely, we can extract such solutions from twistor cohomology, leading to a contour integral formula for perturbations of Przanowski's function. Finally, we illuminate the relationship between Przanowski's function and the twistor description, in particular we construct an algorithm to retrieve Przanowski's function from twistor data in the double-fibration picture. Using a number of examples, we demonstrate this procedure explicitly.

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