Nonlinear gravitons, null geodesics, and holomorphic disks
Lebrun, Claude ; Mason, L. J.
Duke Math. J., Tome 136 (2007) no. 1, p. 205-273 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We develop a global twistor correspondence for pseudo-Riemannian conformal structures of signature $({+}{+}{-}{-})$ with self-dual Weyl curvature. Near the conformal class of the standard indefinite product metric on $S^2 \times S^2$ , there is an infinite-dimensional moduli space of such conformal structures, and each of these has the surprising global property that its null geodesics are all periodic. Each such conformal structure arises from a family of holomorphic disks in ${\mathbb C}{\mathbb P}_3$ with boundary on some totally real embedding of ${\mathbb R}{\mathbb P}^3$ into ${\mathbb C}{\mathbb P}_3$ . Some of these conformal classes are represented by scalar-flat indefinite Kähler metrics, and our methods give particularly sharp results in connection with this special case
Publié le : 2007-02-01
Classification:  53C28,  83C60,  14D21
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Lebrun, Claude; Mason, L. J. Nonlinear gravitons, null geodesics, and holomorphic disks. Duke Math. J., Tome 136 (2007) no. 1, pp.  205-273. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1166711369/