Ovcharenko-Podolsky Einstein-Maxwell gravitational instantons

Abstract

We present an explicit three-parameter family of toric Einstein-Maxwell gravitational instantons. These are complete Riemannian manifolds with vanishing scalar curvature which satisfy the Riemannian Einstein-Maxwell equations. We argue that the metric can be extended to a space with two asymptotic ends diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{H}^2 \times S^2$ with a non-collapsing two-cycle (bolt) in the bulk. The global metric is produced by suitably extending an analytic continuation of a local family of Lorentzian black hole geometries constructed by Ovcharenko-Podolsky.