Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings

M Atiyah, M Dunajski, LJ Mason - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review aspects of twistor theory, its aims and achievements spanning the last five
decades. In the twistor approach, space–time is secondary with events being derived …

[图书][B] Compact manifolds with special holonomy

DD Joyce - 2000 - books.google.com
The book starts with a thorough introduction to connections and holonomy groups, and to
Riemannian, complex and Kähler geometry. Then the Calabi conjecture is proved and used …

[图书][B] Riemannian holonomy groups and calibrated geometry

DD Joyce - 2007 - books.google.com
This graduate level text covers an exciting and active area of research at the crossroads of
several different fields in Mathematics and Physics. In Mathematics it involves Differential …

Constant scalar curvature metrics on toric surfaces

SK Donaldson - Geometric and Functional Analysis, 2009 - Springer
The main result of the paper is an existence theorem for a constant scalar curvature Kahler
metric on a toric surface, assuming the K-stability of the manifold. The proof builds on earlier …

On conformally Kähler, Einstein manifolds

X Chen, C Lebrun, B Weber - Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 2008 - ams.org
We prove that any compact complex surface with $ c_1> 0$ admits an Einstein metric which
is conformally related to a Kähler metric. The key new ingredient is the existence of such a …

[HTML][HTML] Parahermitian and paraquaternionic manifolds

S Ivanov, S Zamkovoy - Differential Geometry and its Applications, 2005 - Elsevier
A set of canonical paraHermitian connections on an almost paraHermitian manifold is
defined. ParaHermitian version of the Apostolov–Gauduchon generalization of the Goldberg …

Emergent gravity from noncommutative space–time

HS Yang - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2009 - World Scientific
We showed before that self-dual electromagnetism in noncommutative (NC) space–time is
equivalent to self-dual Einstein gravity. This result implies a striking picture about gravity …

[PDF][PDF] Einstein-Weyl geometry

D Calderbank, H Pedersen - Surveys in differential geometry, 2001 - intlpress.com
A Weyl manifold is a conformal manifold equipped with a torsion free connec-tion preserving
the conformal structure, called a Weyl connection. It is said to be Ez'nstez'n-Weyl if the …

Selfdual Einstein metrics with torus symmetry

DMJ Calderbank, H Pedersen - Journal of Differential Geometry, 2002 - projecteuclid.org
It is well-known that any 4-dimensional hyperkähler metric with two commuting Killing fields
may be obtained explicitly, via the Gibbons-Hawking Ansatz, from a harmonic function …

Einstein metrics and complex singularities

DMJ Calderbank, MA Singer - Inventiones mathematicae, 2004 - Springer
This paper is concerned with the construction of special metrics on non-compact 4-manifolds
which arise as resolutions of complex orbifold singularities. Our study is close in spirit to the …