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SIGMA, 2013 Volume 9, 075, 21 pp. (Mi sigma858)

This article is cited in 6 papers

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

Mikhail B. Sheftela, Andrei A. Malykhb

a Department of Physics, Boğaziçi University 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
b Department of Numerical Modelling, Russian State Hydrometeorlogical University, 98 Malookhtinsky Ave., 195196 St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: 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.

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

MSC: 35Q75; 83C15

Received: June 14, 2013; in final form November 19, 2013; Published online November 27, 2013

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2013.075



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