Contact spheres and hyperkähler geometry

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0634-YzbMATH Open1176.53077arXivmath/0110106OpenAlexW2000646652MaRDI QIDQ731336FDOQ731336

Authors: Hansjörg Geiges, Jesús Gonzalo Pérez 

Publication date: 2 October 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A taut contact sphere on a 3-manifold is a linear 2-sphere of contact forms, all defining the same volume form. In the present paper we completely determine the moduli of taut contact spheres on compact left-quotients of SU(2) (the only closed manifolds admitting such structures). We also show that the moduli space of taut contact spheres embeds into the moduli space of taut contact circles. This moduli problem leads to a new viewpoint on the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz in hyperkahler geometry. The classification of taut contact spheres on closed 3-manifolds includes the known classification of 3-Sasakian 3-manifolds, but the local Riemannian geometry of contact spheres is much richer. We construct two examples of taut contact spheres on open subsets of 3-space with nontrivial local geometry; one from the Helmholtz equation on the 2-sphere, and one from the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz. We address the Bernstein problem whether such examples can give rise to complete metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0110106

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zbMATH Keywords

contact spheretaut contact circlehyper-Kähler metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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