Quotients of gravitational instantons

被引:12
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作者
Wright, Evan P. [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Math, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
关键词
Gravitational instanton; Asymptotically locally Euclidean; Eta invariant; 4-Manifold; CONSTRUCTION; KAHLER;
D O I
10.1007/s10455-011-9272-2
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
A classification result for Ricci-flat anti-self-dual asymptotically locally Euclidean 4-manifolds is obtained: they are either hyperkahler (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 Kahler. 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 three-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.
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页码:91 / 108
页数:18
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