Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4666905 Advances in Mathematics 2010 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

A homogeneous Gibbons–Hawking ansatz is described, leading to 4-dimensional hyperkähler metrics with homotheties. In combination with Blaschke products on the unit disc in the complex plane, this ansatz allows one to construct infinite-dimensional families of such hyperkähler metrics that are, in a suitable sense, complete. Our construction also gives rise to incomplete metrics on 3-dimensional contact manifolds that induce complete Carnot–Carathéodory distances.

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