Complex structures of the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz with infinite topological type

Abstract

In this paper, we study the complex structures of complete hyperkähler four-manifolds of infinite topological type arising from the Gibbons-Hawking ansatz. We show that for almost all complex structures in the hyperkähler family, the manifold is biholomorphic to a hypersurface in ${\mathbb{C}}^3$ defined by an explicit entire function. For the remaining complex structures, we further prove that the manifold is biholomorphic to the minimal resolution of a singular surface in ${\mathbb{C}}^3$ under certain conditions. Thus, we partially extend LeBrun's celebrated work to the context of countably many punctures.

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