We study the Jones and Tod correspondence between selfdual conformal $4$-manifolds with a conformal vector field and abelian monopoles on Einstein-Weyl $3$-manifolds, and prove that invariant complex structures correspond to shear-free geodesic congruences. Such congruences exist in abundance and so provide a tool for constructing interesting selfdual geometries with symmetry, unifying the theories of scalar-flat Kähler metrics and hypercomplex structures with symmetry. We also show that in the presence...

Spectrum generating technique introduced by Ólafsson, Ørsted, and one of the authors in the paper (Branson, T., Ólafsson, G. and Ørsted, B., Spectrum generating operators, and intertwining operators for representations induced from a maximal parabolic subgroups, J. Funct. Anal. 135 (1996), 163–205.) provides an efficient way to construct certain intertwinors when $K$-types are of multiplicity at most one. Intertwinors on the twistor bundle over $S^1\times S^{n-1}$ have some $K$-types of multiplicity 2. With some additional...

Nous montrons qu’une variété CR strictement pseudoconvexe, de dimension 3, analytique réelle, est le bord à l’infini d’une unique métrique d’Einstein autoduale, définie dans un petit voisinage. La preuve s’appuie sur une construction nouvelle d’espaces de twisteurs à l’aide de courbes rationnelles singulières.