Published April 22, 2002
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Journal article
U(1)xU(1) quaternionic metrics from harmonic superspace
Description
We construct, using harmonic superspace and the quaternionic quotient approach, a quaternionic-Kaehler extension of the most general two centres hyper-Kaehler metric. It possesses U(1)xU(1) isometry, contains as special cases the quaternionic-Kaehler extensions of the Taub-NUT and Eguchi-Hanson metrics and exhibits an extra one-parameter freedom which disappears in the hyper-Kaehler limit. Some emphasis is put on the relation between this class of quaternionic-Kaehler metrics and self-dual Weyl solutions of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations. The relation between our explicit results and the recent general ansatz of Calderbank and Pedersen for quaternionic-Kaehler metrics with U(1)xU(1) isometries is traced in detail
Additional details
Identifiers
- PII
- S0550321302000135;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 627
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 403-444
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Syrian Arab Republic
- INIS RN
- 35105243
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EINSTEIN-MAXWELL EQUATIONS; GROUP THEORY; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; METRICS; SUPERSYMMETRY; U-1 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICS; SPACE; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.