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Construction of gravitational instantons with non-maximal volume growth via codimension-1 collapse

Willem Adriaan Salm
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In this paper, we construct families of gravitational instantons of type ALG, ALG*, ALH and ALH* using a gluing construction. Away from a finite set of exceptional points, the metric collapses with bounded curvature to a quotient of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and a lattice of rank one or two. Depending on whether the gravitational instantons are of type ALG/ALG* or ALH/ALH*, there are either two or four exceptional points respectively that are modelled on the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold. The other exceptional points are modelled on the Taub-NUT metric. There are at most four, respectively eight, of these points in each case.

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Willem Adriaan Salm. 2026-06-11. Construction of gravitational instantons with non-maximal volume growth via codimension-1 collapse. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16318

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