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In this paper, we show that for any finite subgroup $\Gamma < O(4)$ acting freely on $\mathbb{S}^3$, there exists a $4$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with ${\rm Ric}_g \geq 0 $, such that the asymptotic cone of $(M,g)$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Shengxuan Zhou

A noncollapsed $\mathbb{F}$-limit metric soliton is a self-similar singularity model that inevitably arises when studying the Ricci flow with the tool of $\mathbb{F}$-convergence [Bam20a,Bam20b,Bam20c]. In this article, we shall present a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

Let $(M, g, f)$ be a $5$-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f= \lambda g$, where $\text{Ric}$ is the Ricci tensor and $\nabla^2f$ is the Hessian of the potential function $f$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Fengjiang Li , Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

As of today, there are very few known complete shrinking Ricci solitons in dimension 4, and all examples discovered so far are K\"ahler and/or Einstein. In this note, we prove that any four dimensional J-invariant gradient shrinking Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong

Let $(M^n,g)$ $(n\ge 4)$ be a complete noncompact $\kappa$-noncollapsed steady Ricci soliton with $\rm{Rm}\geq 0$ and $\rm{Ric}> 0$ away from a compact set $K$ of $M$. We prove that there is no any $(n-1)$-dimensional compact split limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Ziyi Zhao , Xiaohua Zhu

We show that a complete gradient Ricci soliton $(M^n,\,g)$ with constant scalar curvature and a non-parallel closed conformal vector field is isometric to either the Euclidean space, or an Euclidean sphere, or negatively Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-28 J. F. Siva Filho , R. Sharma

We derive a sharp lower bound for the scalar curvature of non-flat and non-compact expanding gradient Ricci soliton provided that the scalar curvature is non-negative and the potential function is proper. We also give an upper bound for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Pak-Yeung Chan

Suppose $(M^n, g, f)$ is a complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton. We give several rigidity results under some natural conditions, generalizing the results in \cite{Petersen-Wylie,Guan-Lu-Xu}. Using maximum principle, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

This is a sequel to our paper [24], in which we investigated the geometry of 4-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive (nonnegative) isotropic curvature. In this paper, we mainly focus on 4-dimensional gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

We prove that all ends of a gradient shrinking $\rho$-Einstein soliton are $\varphi$-non-parabolic, provided $\rho$ is nonnegative and the soliton has bounded and nonnegative scalar curvature, where the weight $\varphi$ is a negative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Valter Borges , Hector Rosero-García , João Paulo dos Santos

Let $G$ be a compact Lie group acting isometrically on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonempty fixed point set $M^G$. We say that $M$ is fixed-point homogeneous if $G$ acts transitively on a normal sphere to some component of $M^G$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-13 Fernando Galaz-Garcia

In this paper we prove the compactness result for compact K\"ahler Ricci gradient shrinking solitons. If $(M_i,g_i)$ is a sequence of K\"ahler Ricci solitons of real dimension $n \ge 4$, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded $L^{n/2}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Natasa Sesum

In this paper, we show that any nontrivial complete shrinking gradient Yamabe soliton whose scalar curvature is bounded below by the soliton constant everywhere and is strictly greater than the constant at some point is rotationally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Shun Maeta

In this note we prove that a four-dimensional compact oriented half-confor\-mally flat Riemannian manifold $M^4$ is topologically $\mathbb{S}^{4}$ or $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{2},$ provided that the sectional curvatures all lie in the interval…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-17 R. Diógenes , E. Ribeiro , E. Rufino

We give some rigidity theorems for an n$(\geq4)$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with harmonic Weyl curvature, positive scalar curvature and positive constant $\sigma_2$. Moreover, when $n=4,$ we prove that a 4-dimensional compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Haiping Fu , Huiya He

Let (M,g) be an Einstein manifold of dimension n \geq 4 with nonnegative isotropic curvature. We show that (M,g) is locally symmetric.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 S. Brendle

In this paper, we derive curvature estimates for 4-dimensional complete gradient expanding Ricci solitons with nonnegative Ricci curvature (outside a compact set $K$). More precisely, we prove that the norm of the curvature tensor $Rm$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Tianbo Liu

In this short note, using G\"unther's volume comparison theorem and Yokota's gap theorem on complete shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, we prove that for any complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton $(M^{n},g,f)$ with sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Shijin Zhang

In this paper, we completely classify all compact 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature. We show that they are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{S}^4,$ or $\mathbb{R}\mathbb{P}^4$ or quotients of $\mathbb{S}^3\times \mathbb{R}$ by a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-14 Bing-Long Chen , Siu-Hung Tang , Xi-Ping Zhu

In this paper, we establish the existence of conformal deformations that uniformize fourth order curvature on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with positive conformal invariants. Specifically, we prove that any closed, compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Sanghoon Lee