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Title: Scalar-flat Kahler metrics on non-compact symplectic toric 4-manifolds
Authors: Miguel Abreu, Rosa Sena-Dias
Categories: math.DG Differential Geometry (math.SG Symplectic Geometry)
Comments: 30 pages, 3 figures. Revised version: minor corrections, added two references. Version 3: minor changes, corrected sign mystake, updated references

Abstract: In a recent paper Donaldson explains how to use an older construction of Joyce to obtain four dimensional local models for scalar-flat Kahler metrics with a 2-torus symmetry. Using this idea, he recovers and generalizes the Taub-NUT metric by including it in a new family of complete scalar-flat toric Kahler metrics. In this paper we generalize Donaldson's method and construct complete scalar-flat toric Kahler metrics on any symplectic toric 4-manifold with "strictly unbounded" moment polygon. These include the asymptotic locally Euclidean scalar-flat Kahler metrics previously constructed by Calderbank and Singer, as well as new examples of complete scalar-flat toric Kahler metrics which are asymptotic to Donaldson's generalized Taub-NUT metrics. Our construction is in symplectic action-angle coordinates and determines all these metrics via their symplectic potentials. When the first Chern class is zero we obtain a new description of known Ricci-flat Kahler metrics.

Owner: Miguel Abreu
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