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A uniqueness theorem for asymptotically cylindrical shrinking Ricci solitons

Differential Geometry 2020-09-16 v2

Abstract

We prove that a shrinking gradient Ricci soliton which agrees to infinite order at spatial infinity with one of the standard cylindrical metrics on Sk×\RRnkS^k\times \RR^{n-k} for k2k\geq 2 along some end must be isometric to the cylinder on that end. When the underlying manifold is complete, it must be globally isometric either to the cylinder or (when k=n1k=n-1) to its \ZZ2\ZZ_2-quotient.

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@article{arxiv.1712.03185,
  title  = {A uniqueness theorem for asymptotically cylindrical shrinking Ricci solitons},
  author = {Brett Kotschwar and Lu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03185},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: Minor corrections; 66 pages, no figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:12:35.995Z