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Ricci Yang-Mills solitons on nilpotent Lie groups

Differential Geometry 2012-10-23 v2

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Ricci Yang-Mills soliton equations on nilpotent Lie groups. In the 2-step nilpotent setting, we show that these equations are strictly weaker than the Ricci soliton equations. Using techniques from Geometric Invariant Theory, we develop a procedure to build many different kinds of Ricci Yang-Mills solitons. We finish this note by producing examples of Lie groups that do not admit Ricci soliton metrics but that do admit Ricci Yang-Mills soliton metrics.

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@article{arxiv.0907.1095,
  title  = {Ricci Yang-Mills solitons on nilpotent Lie groups},
  author = {Michael Jablonski and Andrea Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1095},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages; fixed a typo in Theorem 3.18