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Uniqueness of asymptotically conical shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons

Differential Geometry 2025-04-29 v2

Abstract

We show that, up to biholomorphism, a given noncompact complex manifold only admits one shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton with Ricci curvature tending to zero at infinity. Our result does not require fixing the asymptotic data of the metric, nor fixing the soliton vector field. The method used to prove the uniqueness of the soliton vector field can be applied more widely, for example to show that conical Calabi-Yau metrics on a given complex manifold are unique up to biholomorphism. We also use it to prove that if two polarized Fano fibrations, as introduced by Sun-Zhang, are biholomorphic, then they are isomorphic as algebraic varieties.

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@article{arxiv.2502.13521,
  title  = {Uniqueness of asymptotically conical shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons},
  author = {Carlos Esparza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13521},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

50 pages; removed the hypothesis that the vertices of the cones coincide from Prop. 5.17 (new numbering). The numbers of results in section 5 have changed