
Recently an explicit resolution of the Calabi-Yau cone over the inhomogeneous five-dimensional Einstein-Sasaki space Y^{2,1} was obtained. It was constructed by specialising the parameters in the BPS limit of recently-discovered Kerr-NUT-AdS metrics in higher dimensions. We study the occurrence of such non-singular resolutions of Calabi-Yau cones in a more general context. Although no further six-dimensional examples arise as resolutions of cones over the L^{pqr} Einstein-Sasaki spaces, we find general classes of non-singular cohomogeneity-2 resolutions of higher-dimensional Einstein-Sasaki spaces. The topologies of the resolved spaces are of the form of an R^2 bundle over a base manifold that is itself an $S^2$ bundle over an Einstein-Kahler manifold.
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High Energy Physics - Theory, Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), FOS: Physical sciences, Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds, String and superstring theories in gravitational theory, String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory, Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), FOS: Physical sciences, Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds, String and superstring theories in gravitational theory, String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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