Regular ambitoric $4$-manifolds: from Riemannian Kerr to a complete classification

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that Riemannian Kerr black-hole metrics can be endowed with an ambitoric structure, leading to a classification of certain 4-manifolds with specific geometric properties.

Contribution

It establishes a link between Kerr metrics and ambitoric structures and provides a classification of regular ambitoric 4-orbifolds under completeness assumptions.

Findings

Moment map image is not locally convex near singularity.

Classification of regular ambitoric 4-orbifolds achieved.

Partial classification of compact Riemannian 4-manifolds with Killing 2-forms.

Abstract

We show that the conformal structure for the Riemannian analogues of Kerr black-hole metrics can be given an ambitoric structure. We then discuss the properties of the moment maps. In particular, we observe that the moment map image is not locally convex near the singularity corresponding to the ring singularity in the interior of the black hole. We then proceed to classify regular ambitoric $4$-orbifolds with some completeness assumptions. The tools developed also allow us to prove a partial classification of compact Riemannian $4$-manifolds which admit a Killing $2$-form.