Volume 83B, number 3,4 PHYSICS LETTERS 21 May 1979

EQUIVALENCE OF EGUCHI-HANSON METRIC TO

TWO CENTER GIBBONS-HAWKING METRIC

M.K. PRASAD
Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York,
Stony Brook, L.L, NY 11794, USA

Received 20 February 1979

Revised manuscript received 22 March 1979

Coordinate transformations which transform the two center Gibbons-Hawking metric into the Eguchi-Hanson metric
are explicitly given.

Global considerations [1,3] indicate that the two- Secondly, one makes the following identifications:
center G i b b o n s - H a w k i n g metric [ 1] is equivalent to
the Eguchi-Hanson metric [2], but no explicit trans-
/3-- 0, (6)
formation proving the equivalence has appeared in the r -~ 2 0 , (7)
literature. The purpose o f this note is to supply the
explicit relationship between the two metrics.
~,- ~, (8)
The two-center Gibbons Hawking metric takes 8Z 0 ~- a 2 , (9)
the following form:
8Z 0 cosh a = r 2 . (10)
ds2 = ( ~ + + ~ -_) - 1 [dT + ( R ~ + RZ-- ) d t a n - l ( y / x ) ] 2
It is now straightforward algebra to verify that the
transformations ( 3 ) - ( 1 0 ) transform the metric (1)
+ + [ d X 2 + d Y 2 + d Z 2] , (1) into

ds 2 = ¼r2 [1 - (a/r) 4] [dff + cos0 d0] 2

Z_+ = Z + Z 0 R 2 - X 2 + y2 + Z 2 ' (2)
+ [1 - (a/r) 4]-1 dr 2 + zr
I 2 [d0 2 + sin20 d02] (11)
when the two centers have been placed symmetrically
on the Z axis at + Z 0 and their associated strings are which is precisely the Eguchi-Hanson metric.
taken along the positive Z axis. The necessary coordi-
nate transformations are most simply described in two References
steps. First, one transforms to eliptic coordinates de-
fined by [1] G.W. Gibbons and S.W. Hawking, Phys. Lett. 78B (1978)
430.
X - Z 0 sinh a sin/3 cos 7 , (3) [2] T. Eguchi and A.J. Hanson, Phys. Lett. 74B (1978) 249.
[3] T. Eguchi and A.J. Hanson, SLAC PUB-2213, LBL-8265,
Y --- Z 0 sinh a sin/3 sin 7 , (4)

Z - Z 0 cosh a cos/3. (5)

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