The Einstein-Weyl equations, scattering maps, and holomorphic disks

DOI10.4310/MRL.2009.V16.N2.A7zbMATH Open1176.53071arXiv0806.3761MaRDI QIDQ843044FDOQ843044

Authors: Claude Lebrun, L. J. Mason 

Publication date: 29 September 2009

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that conformally compact, globally hyperbolic, Lorentzian Einstein-Weyl 3-manifolds are in natural one-to-one correspondence with orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms of the 2-sphere. The proof hinges on a holomorphic-disk analog of Hitchin's mini-twistor correspondence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3761

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering mapsEinstein-Weyl equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

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