Quotients of gravitational instantons

DOI10.1007/S10455-011-9272-2zbMATH Open1236.53060arXiv1102.2442OpenAlexW2094466156MaRDI QIDQ658359FDOQ658359

Evan P. Wright

Publication date: 12 January 2012

Published in: Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A classification result for Ricci-flat anti-self-dual asymptotically locally Euclidean 4-manifolds is obtained: they are either hyperk"ahler (one of the gravitational instantons classified by Kronheimer), or they are a cyclic quotient of a Gibbons-Hawking space. The possible quotients are described in terms of the monopole set in R^3, and it is proved that every such quotient is actually K"ahler. The fact that the Gibbons-Hawking spaces are the only gravitational instantons to admit isometric quotients is proved by examining the possible fundamental groups at infinity: most can be ruled out by the classification of 3-dimensional spherical space form groups, and the rest are excluded by a computation of the Rohklin invariant (in one case) or the eta invariant (in the remaining family of cases) of the corresponding space forms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2442

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zbMATH Keywords

eta invariantgravitational instanton4-manifoldasymptotically locally Euclidean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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