Toric self-dual Einstein metrics on compact orbifolds
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Toric self-dual Einstein metrics on compact orbifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 1104.53041
DOI: 10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13322-7
author: David M. J. Calderbank
author: Michael A. Singer
published in: Duke Mathematical Journal
publication date: 2006-07-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405020
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1148224039
review text: Let \(X\) be a compact self-dual Einstein 4-orbifold, isometric to a quaternionic Kähler quotient of a quaternionic projective space \({\mathbb H}P^{k-1}\), \(k\geq 2\), by a \((k-2)\)-dimensional subtorus of \(\text{Sp}_k\). In the paper [J. Differ. Geom. 60, No. 3, 485--521 (2002; Zbl 1067.53034)], the first author and \textit{H. Pedersen} proved that any 4-dimensional self-dual Einstein metric, with non-zero scalar curvature and a 2-torus in its isometry group, is locally determined by a real valued function \(F\) on the hyperbolic plane \(\mathcal H\), which is an eigenfunction of the hyperbolic Laplacian with eigenvalue \(3/4\); furthermore, if \(X\) is a quaternionic Kähler quotient as described above, then such eigenfunction is of the form \[ F(\rho, \eta)= \sum_{i = 1}^k \frac{\sqrt{a_i^2 \rho^2 + (a_i \eta - b_i)^2}} {\sqrt{\rho}}\tag{1} \] for some \(a_i, b_i \in \mathbb R\) and where \((\rho>0, \eta)\) are the half-space coordinates of \(\mathcal H\). In this paper, the authors show that any compact self-dual Einstein 4-manifold \(Y\) with positive scalar curvature whose isometry group contains a 2-torus is (up to orbifold coverings) isometric to a quaternionic Kähler quotient \(X\) as defined above. The key point of the proof consists in showing that the function \(F\) associated with the metric on the open set \(W\subset Y\), on which the 2-torus acts freely, has a boundary behaviour which implies that \(F\) is of the form (1). The authors give also a characterization, in terms of the intersection forms, of the compact, simply connected, oriented toric 4-orbifolds admitting a self-dual Einstein metric of positive scalar curvature and with totally geodesic singular orbits of the toric actions.
reviewed by: Andrea Spiro
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C26
zbMATH DE Number: 5042578
zbMATH Keywords: self-dual Einstein metrics
zbMATH Keywords: toric orbifolds
zbMATH Keywords: quaternionic Kähler quotients
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: math/0405020
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