Example 1.8 . [03Z2]
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Example 1.8.
(Taub-NUT) We take , and , where is a positive constant. This defines a Calabi-Yau metric whose asymptotic geometry at infinity approaches the constant solution (cf. Example 1.6), with asymptotic circles of length fibred over a flat 3-dimensional base. Different choices of define the same metric up to scaling. The first Chern class of the -bundle over evaluates to on any sphere around the origin in ; equivalently, the 3-current is represented by the origin viewed as a codimension 3 cycle. Written in terms of the delta function,
From the holomorphic perspective, LeBrun [17] observes that the Taub-NUT space is biholomorphic to . To see this, recall and notice the (1,0) form is closed, so locally is the differential of a holomorphic function. The line integrals
define holomorphic functions up to over the regions and respectively, so and are well defined over the respective regions. Since we can normalise to satisfy the functional equation , whence and extend as global holomorphic functions. These coordinates exhibit the biholomorphism to . By considering the Hamiltonian vector field acting on , we idenitfy the action as
The holomorphic volume form is
Thus defines holomorphic fibration of by affine quadrics. The generic quadric fibre is topologically a cylinder, and metrically is also approaching the flat cylindrical metric near spatial infinity. When , the quadric fibre degenerates into a union of two complex lines with simple normal crossing, where each line looks metrically like a cylinder with one capped end.