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The Indefinite Self-Dual Metrics and Painleve Equations

Shoji Okumura

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0211045

Abstract

We classify the SU(2)-invariant anti-self-dual metrics with a signature (+,+,-,-). The metrics are specified by a solution of Painleve VI, V, III or II. Moreover we show the geometric meaning of the metrics specified by each type of Painlevé functions.

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