Published January 1, 1997 | Version v1
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General minimal surface solution for gravitational instantons

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We construct the general instanton metric obtained from Weierstrass' general local solution for minimal surfaces using the correspondence between minimal surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean space and gravitational instantons admitting two Killing vectors. The resulting metric contains one arbitrary analytic function and we show that it can be transformed to the Gibbons-Hawking form of an instanton metric that was reported earlier.

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