The topology of asymptotically locally flat gravitational instantons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.08.080zbMATH Open1248.53038arXivhep-th/0602053OpenAlexW2165814348MaRDI QIDQ712853FDOQ712853

Authors: Gábor Etesi 

Publication date: 18 October 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this letter we demonstrate that the intersection form of the Hausel--Hunsicker--Mazzeo compactification of a four dimensional ALF gravitational instanton is definite and diagonalizable over the integers if one of the Kahler forms of the hyper-Kahler gravitational instanton metric is exact. This leads to the topological classification of these spaces. The proof exploits the relationship between L^2 cohomology and U(1) anti-instantons over gravitational instantons recognized by Hitchin. We then interprete these as reducible points in a singular SU(2) anti-instanton moduli space over the compactification leading to the identification of its intersection form. This observation on the intersection form might be a useful tool in the full geometric classification of various asymptotically locally flat gravitational instantons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602053

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zbMATH Keywords

Hausel-Hunsicker-Mazzeo compactificationhyper-Kähler gravitational instanton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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