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Partner symmetries of the complex Monge-Ampere equation yield hyper-Kahler metrics without continuous symmetries
We extend the Mason-Newman Lax pair for the elliptic complex Monge-Amp\`ere
equation so that this equation itself emerges as an algebraic consequence. We
regard the function in the extended Lax equations as a complex potential. We
identify the real and imaginary parts of the potential, which we call partner
symmetries, with the translational and dilatational symmetry characteristics
respectively. Then we choose the dilatational symmetry characteristic as the
new unknown replacing the K\"ahler potential which directly leads to a Legendre
transformation and to a set of linear equations satisfied by a single real
potential. This enables us to construct non-invariant solutions of the Legendre
transform of the complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation and obtain hyper-K\"ahler
metrics with anti-self-dual Riemann curvature 2-form that admit no Killing
vectors.Comment: submitted to J. Phys.
On a class of second-order PDEs admitting partner symmetries
Recently we have demonstrated how to use partner symmetries for obtaining
noninvariant solutions of heavenly equations of Plebanski that govern heavenly
gravitational metrics. In this paper, we present a class of scalar second-order
PDEs with four variables, that possess partner symmetries and contain only
second derivatives of the unknown. We present a general form of such a PDE
together with recursion relations between partner symmetries. This general PDE
is transformed to several simplest canonical forms containing the two heavenly
equations of Plebanski among them and two other nonlinear equations which we
call mixed heavenly equation and asymmetric heavenly equation. On an example of
the mixed heavenly equation, we show how to use partner symmetries for
obtaining noninvariant solutions of PDEs by a lift from invariant solutions.
Finally, we present Ricci-flat self-dual metrics governed by solutions of the
mixed heavenly equation and its Legendre transform.Comment: LaTeX2e, 26 pages. The contents change: Exact noninvariant solutions
of the Legendre transformed mixed heavenly equation and Ricci-flat metrics
governed by solutions of this equation are added. Eq. (6.10) on p. 14 is
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