Harmonic forms on ALF gravitational instantons

Abstract

We study the space of square-integrable harmonic forms over ALF gravitational instantons of type $A _{ K -1 } $ and of type $D _K $. We first calculate its dimension making use of a result by Hausel, Hunsicker and Mazzeo which relates the Hodge cohomology of a gravitational instanton $M$ to the singular cohomology of a particular compactification $X _M $ of $M$. We then exhibit an explicit basis, exact for $A _{ K -1 } $ and approximate for $D _K $, and interpret geometrically the relations between $M$, $X _M $ and their cohomologies.