Gibbons–Hawking space

In mathematical physics, a Gibbons–Hawking space, named after Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking, is essentially a hyperkähler manifold with an extra U(1) symmetry. (In general, Gibbons–Hawking metrics are a subclass of hyperkähler metrics. ) Gibbons–Hawking spaces, especially ambipolar ones, find an application in the study of black hole microstate geometries.