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Complete Shrinking Ricci Solitons have Finite Fundamental Group

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that if a complete Riemannian manifold supports a vector field such that the Ricci tensor plus the Lie derivative of the metric with respect to the vector field has a positive lower bound, then the fundamental group is finite. In particular, it follows that complete shrinking Ricci solitons and complete smooth metric measure spaces with a positive lower bound on the Bakry-Emery tensor have finite fundamental group. The method of proof is to generalize arguments of Garcia-Rio and Fernandez-Lopez in the compact case.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0317,
  title  = {Complete Shrinking Ricci Solitons have Finite Fundamental Group},
  author = {William Wylie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0317},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of AMS