Ambitoric geometry. I: Einstein metrics and extremal ambikähler structures

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2014-0060zbMATH Open1355.32018arXiv1302.6975OpenAlexW2963712867MaRDI QIDQ346745FDOQ346745

Authors: Vestislav Apostolov, David M. J. Calderbank, Paul Gauduchon 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

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

Abstract: We present a local classification of conformally equivalent but oppositely oriented 4-dimensional Kaehler metrics which are toric with respect to a common 2-torus action. In the generic case, these "ambitoric" structures have an intriguing local geometry depending on a quadratic polynomial q and arbitrary functions A and B of one variable. We use this description to classify Einstein 4-metrics which are hermitian with respect to both orientations, as well a class of solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations including riemannian analogues of the Plebanski-Demianski metrics. Our classification can be viewed as a riemannian analogue of a result in relativity due to R. Debever, N. Kamran, and R. McLenaghan, and is a natural extension of the classification of selfdual Einstein hermitian 4-manifolds, obtained independently by R. Bryant and the first and third authors. These Einstein metrics are precisely the ambitoric structures with vanishing Bach tensor, and thus have the property that the associated toric Kaehler metrics are extremal (in the sense of E. Calabi). Our main results also classify the latter, providing new examples of explicit extremal Kaehler metrics. For both the Einstein-Maxwell and the extremal ambitoric structures, A and B are quartic polynomials, but with different conditions on the coefficients. In the sequel to this paper we consider global examples, and use them to resolve the existence problem for extremal Kaehler metrics on toric 4-orbifolds with second betti number b2=2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6975

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein metricsKähler metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Kähler-Einstein manifolds (32Q20)

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