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A note on Rigidity of Shrinking Gradient Ricci Solitons with Constant Scalar Curvature

Differential Geometry 2026-04-28 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let (Mn,g,f)(M^n, g, f) be an nn-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation Ric+2f=12gRic+\nabla^2f= \frac{1}{2}g. 1. If its scalar curvature is k2\frac{k}{2}, Ricci curvature is nonnegative and sectional curvature has upper bound 12(k1)\frac{1}{2(k-1)}, we prove that the Ricci shrinker is isometric to a finite quotient of Rnk×Sk\mathbb{R}^{n-k}\times \mathbb{S}^k. 2. If MM has constant scalar curvature R=n22R=\frac{n-2}{2}, and each level set of ff has vanishing Weyl curvature, we prove that it is a finite quotient of R2×Sn2\mathbb{R}^2\times \mathbb{S}^{n-2}. This can be seen a generalization of Cheng-Zhou's four dimensional result \cite{Cheng-Zhou} to high dimension, since the level set of the potential function ff has vanishing Weyl curvature automatically when n=4n=4.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23939,
  title  = {A note on Rigidity of Shrinking Gradient Ricci Solitons with Constant Scalar Curvature},
  author = {Chen Wang and Guoqiang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23939},
  year   = {2026}
}