Quaternionic reduction and Einstein manifolds

Construction of instantons

Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, Vladimir Drinfeld et al. · Physics Letters A · 1978 · 1.5K citations

Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry

Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, I. M. Singer · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1978 · 1.5K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +17

Nonlinear gravitons and curved twistor theory

Roger Penrose · General Relativity and Gravitation · 1976 · 692 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Gravitation +13

A Torelli-type theorem for gravitational instantons

P. B. Kronheimer · Journal of Differential Geometry · 1989 · 252 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +11

A compact rotating gravitational instanton

Don N. Page · Physics Letters B · 1978 · 223 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Cosmology +10