Quotients of gravitational instantons

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Evan P. Wright
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[1] Stony Brook University,Mathematics Department
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Gravitational instanton; Asymptotically locally Euclidean; Eta invariant; 4-Manifold; Primary: 53C25; Secondary: 53C55; 58J28; 20F34;
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A classification result for Ricci-flat anti-self-dual asymptotically locally Euclidean 4-manifolds is obtained: they are either hyperkähler (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 \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\mathbb{R}^3}$$\end{document} , and it is proved that every such quotient is actually Kähler. 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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