Bianchi IX self-dual Einstein metrics and singular G 2 manifolds

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/19/308MaRDI QIDQ4467560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mirjam Cvetič, Gary W. Gibbons, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope

Publication date 10 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0206151

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: We construct explicit cohomogeneity two metrics of G_2 holonomy, which are foliated by twistor spaces. The twistor spaces are S^2 bundles over four-dimensional Bianchi IX Einstein metrics with self-dual (or anti-self-dual) Weyl tensor. Generically the 4-metric is of triaxial Bianchi IX type, with SU(2) isometry. We derive the first-order differential equations for the metric coefficients, and obtain the corresponding superpotential governing the equations of motion, in the general triaxial Bianchi IX case. In general our metrics have singularities, which are of orbifold or cosmic-string type. For the special case of biaxial Bianchi IX metrics, we give a complete analysis their local and global properties, and the singularities. In the triaxial case we find that a system of equations written down by Tod and Hitchin satisfies our first-order equations. The converse is not always true. A discussion is given of the possible implications of the singularity structure of these spaces for M-theory dynamics.

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