James Lucietti

On the Existence of Toric ALE and ALF Gravitational Instantons

Abstract We establish existence and uniqueness results for asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) and asymptotically locally flat (ALF) gravitational instantons. In particular, we prove the existence of a unique, Ricci-flat, toric ALE and ALF gravitational instanton, for every ad...

All Toric Hermitian ALE Gravitational Instantons

Abstract We prove that the only smooth, Ricci flat, ALE gravitational instanton with a toric Hermitian non-Kähler structure is the Eguchi-Hanson instanton. The proof is analogous to the classification of toric Hermitian ALF instantons by Biquard and Gauduchon, although we avoid t...