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Abstract There are two known classes of gravitational instantons with quadratic volume growth at infinity, known as type and . Gravitational instantons of type were previously classified by Chen–Chen. In this paper, we prove a classification theorem for gravitational instantons. We determine the topology and prove existence of “uniform” coordinates at infinity for both ALG and gravitational instantons. We also prove a result regarding the relationship between ALG gravitational instantons of order and those of order 2.more » « less
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Abstract We develop a Fredholm theory for the Hodge Laplacian in weighted spaces on ALG ∗ manifolds in dimension four.We then give several applications of this theory.First, we show the existence of harmonic functions with prescribed asymptotics at infinity.A corollary of this is a non-existence result for ALG ∗ manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature having group Γ = { e } \Gamma=\{e\} at infinity.Next, we prove a Hodge decomposition for the first de Rham cohomology group of an ALG ∗ manifold.A corollary of this is vanishing of the first Betti number for any ALG ∗ manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature.Another application of our analysis is to determine the optimal order of ALG ∗ gravitational instantons.more » « less
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