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We discuss some classification results for Ricci solitons, that is, self similar solutions of the Ricci Flow. Some simple proofs of known results will be presented. In detail, we will take the equation point of view, trying to avoid the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-25 Manolo Eminenti , Gabriele La Nave , Carlo Mantegazza

An explicit one-parameter Lie point symmetry of the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations with two commuting hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector fields is presented. The parameter takes values over all of the real line and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 M. M. Akbar , M. A. H. MacCallum

We study the soliton flow on the domain of a twistorial harmonic morphism between Riemannian manifolds of dimensions four and three. Assuming real-analyticity, we prove that, for the Gibbons-Hawking construction, any soliton flow is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Paul Baird , Radu Pantilie

In this paper, we establish a compactness theorem for gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounds and uniform lower bounds of harmonic coordinates. Our approach is to bootstrap regularity in harmonic coordinates by exploiting the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Ming Hsiao

We consider the oscillator group equipped with a bi-invariant Lorentzian metric, and then some geometrical properties of this group i.e. homogeneous Ricci solitons and harmonicity properties of invariant vector fields are obtained. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Yadollah Aryanejad

In this paper geometrical aspects of perfect fluid spacetime with torse-forming vector field \xi are discribed and Ricci soliton in perfect fluid spacetime with torse-forming vector field \xi are determined. Conditions for the Ricci soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Venkatesha , Aruna Kumara H

This paper explores the evolution and monotonicity of geometric constants within the framework of extended Ricci flows, incorporating variable coupling parameters. Building on Hamiltons foundational Ricci flow and subsequent extensions by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Shouvik Datta Choudhury

In this paper, we investigate the triviality of Ricci-Bourguignon harmonic solitons. We also use the results of V-harmonic map to investigate the property of Ricci harmonic soliton.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Xiangzhi Cao

We introduce and study $H$-paracontact metric manifolds, that is, paracontact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field $\xi$ is harmonic. We prove that they are characterized by the condition that $\xi$ is a Ricci eigenvector. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Giovanni Calvaruso , Domenico Perrone

We show how to view the equations for a cohomogeneity one Ricci soliton as a Hamiltonian system with a constraint. We investigate conserved quantities and superpotentials, and use this to find some explicit formulae for Ricci solitons not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Alejandro Betancourt de la Parra , Andrew S. Dancer , McKenzie Y. Wang

We consider almost Einstein solitons $(V,\lambda)$ in a Riemannian manifold when $V$ is a gradient, a solenoidal or a concircular vector field. We explicitly express the function $\lambda$ by means of the gradient vector field $V$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Adara M. Blaga , Dan Radu Latcu

We present several new space-periodic solutions of the static vacuum Einstein equations in higher dimensions, both with and without black holes, having Kasner asymptotics. These latter solutions are referred to as gravitational solitons.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Marcus Khuri , Martin Reiris , Gilbert Weinstein , Sumio Yamada

In this paper we study gradient Ricci-Harmonic soliton with structure of warped product manifold. We obtain some triviality results for the potential function, warping function and the harmonic map which reaches maximum or minimum. In order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Elismar Batista , Levi Adriano , Willian Tokura

We describe three-dimensional Lorentzian homogeneous Ricci solitons, showing that all types (i.e. shrinking, expanding and steady) exist. Moreover, all non-trivial examples have non-diagonalizable Ricci operator with one only eigenvalue.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-09 M. Brozos-Vazquez , G. Calvaruso , E. Garcia-Rio , S. Gavino-Fernandez

The aim of this article is to study the k-almost Ricci soliton and k-almost gradient Ricci soliton on contact metric manifold. First, we prove that if a compact K-contact metric is a k-almost gradient Ricci soliton then it is isometric to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Amalendu Ghosh , Dhriti Sundar Patra

We review the main aspects of Ricci flows as they arise in physics and mathematics. In field theory they describe the renormalization group equations of the target space metric of two dimensional sigma models to lowest order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Bakas

This paper studies gradient almost Ricci-harmonic soliton with respect to a fixed metric. We rely on analytic techniques to estabilish some basic elliptic and integral equations for the structure of almost Ricci-harmonic soliton which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Abimbola Abolarinwa

Any homogeneous expanding Ricci soliton is known to be isometric to a Lie subgroup of the solvable part of the Iwasawa decomposition associated with a symmetric space of non-compact type, with the metric induced as a submanifold. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Ángel Cidre-Díaz , Víctor Sanmartín-López

We explore the harmonic-Ricci flow---that is, Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow---both as it arises naturally in certain principal bundle constructions related to Ricci flow and as a geometric flow in its own right. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Michael Bradford Williams

This is the second paper in a series of works devoted to nonholonomic Ricci flows. By imposing non-integrable (nonholonomic) constraints on the Ricci flows of Riemannian metrics we can model mutual transforms of generalized Finsler-Lagrange…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru