Poincaré-Einstein 4-Manifolds with Conformally Kähler Geometry
Speaker(s): Hongyi Liu (Princeton University)
Time: 09:00-10:00 April 1, 2026
Venue: Online
Abstract: Poincaré–Einstein metrics play an important role in geometric analysis and mathematical physics, yet constructing new examples beyond the perturbative regime is difficult. In this talk, I will describe a class of four-dimensional Poincaré–Einstein manifolds that are conformal to Kähler metrics. These metrics admit a natural symmetry generated by a Killing field, which reduces the Einstein equations to a Toda-type system. This approach leads to existence and uniqueness results in the case of complex line bundles over surfaces of genus at least one. The construction produces large-scale, infinite-dimensional families of new Poincaré–Einstein metrics with conformal infinities of non-positive Yamabe type. This is joint work with Mingyang Li.
Brief biography: Hongyi Liu is currently an instructor at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 2023. His research focuses on differential geometry and geometric analysis.
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