Partner Symmetries, Group Foliation and ASD Ricci-Flat Metrics without Killing Vectors

Mikhail B. Sheftel ; Andrei A. Malykh

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 9 (2013)

Résumé

We demonstrate how a combination of our recently developed methods of partner symmetries, symmetry reduction in group parameters and a new version of the group foliation method can produce noninvariant solutions of complex Monge–Ampère equation (CMA) and provide a lift from invariant solutions of CMA satisfying Boyer–Finley equation to non-invariant ones. Applying these methods, we obtain a new noninvariant solution of CMA and the corresponding Ricci-flat anti-self-dual Einstein–Kähler metric with Euclidean signature without Killing vectors, together with Riemannian curvature two-forms. There are no singularities of the metric and curvature in a bounded domain if we avoid very special choices of arbitrary functions of a single variable in our solution. This metric does not describe gravitational instantons because the curvature is not concentrated in a bounded domain.

Détail

Keywords: Monge–Ampère equation; Boyer–Finley equation; partner symmetries; symmetry reduction; non-invariant solutions; group foliation; anti-self-dual gravity; Ricci-flat metric.

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