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Neutral Calabi-Yau Structures on Kodaira Manifolds

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We construct neutral Calabi-Yau metrics and hypersymplectic structures on some Kodaira manifolds. Our structures are symmetric with respect to the central tori.

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Correspondence to Henrik Pedersen.

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Communicated by G.W. Gibbons

Partially supported by The European Contract HPRN-CT-2000-00101, MURST and GNSAGA (Indam) of Italy

Partially supported by The European Contract HPRN-CT-2000-00101

Partially supported by NSF

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Fino, A., Pedersen, H., Poon, YS. et al. Neutral Calabi-Yau Structures on Kodaira Manifolds. Commun. Math. Phys. 248, 255–268 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-004-1108-5

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