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On the Geroch conjecture for toric gravitational instantons

Lars Andersson·Mattias Dahl·Gustav Nilsson
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Geroch conjectured that the local solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with two commuting Killing fields and vanishing twist constants are generated from flat space by an infinite-dimensional group of transformations, and Hauser and Ernst proved this for stationary axisymmetric spacetimes near the axis. The solutions generated from flat space by the transformations with finitely many poles in the spectral parameter are the solitons of Belinski and Zakharov. We prove a solitonic form of the conjecture in Riemannian signature, for toric gravitational instantons. The proof combines Weinstein's uniqueness argument, a closed formula for the soliton metrics in Hankel determinants and a degree argument. It also applies to the toric Ricci-flat metrics with conical singularities constructed by Li and Sun.

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Lars Andersson, Mattias Dahl, Gustav Nilsson. 2026-10-30. On the Geroch conjecture for toric gravitational instantons. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41875

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