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In this paper, we study 3-dimensional complete non-compact Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature and a uniformly positive scalar curvature lower bound. Our main result is that, if this manifold has $k$ ends…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Xian-Tao Huang , Shuai Liu

In this paper, we study the following conjecture of Hamilton: Any compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator must be Einstein. We first derive several identities. Then we show that the conjecture is true under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Cao

Let $(M^n, g, f)$ be an $n$-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f= \frac{1}{2}g$. 1. If its scalar curvature is $\frac{k}{2}$, Ricci curvature is nonnegative and sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Chen Wang , Guoqiang Wu

We prove that a four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with $\delta W^{\pm}=0$ is either Einstein, or a finite quotient of $S^3\times\mathbb{R}$, $S^2\times\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^4$. We also prove that a four-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Jia-Yong Wu , Peng Wu , William Wylie

We establish a symmetry principle for asymptotically cylindrical steady gradient Ricci solitons (GRSs) and asymptotically conical expanding GRSs with homogeneous links. Using this, we show that the Bryant steady soliton is the unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Michael B. Law

In this paper we classify the four dimensional gradient shrinking solitons under certain curvature conditions satisfied by all solitons arising from finite time singularities of Ricci flow on compact four manifolds with positive isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-18 Lei Ni , Nolan Wallach

In this note, we obtain a sharp volume estimate for complete gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounded below by a positive constant. Using Chen-Yokota's argument we obtain a local lower bound estimate of the scalar curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Shijin Zhang

We show that if two gradient Ricci solitons are asymptotic along some end of each to the same regular cone, then the soliton metrics must be isometric on some neighborhoods of infinity of these ends. Our theorem imposes no restrictions on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Brett Kotschwar , Lu Wang

We show that a four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive isotropic curvature is either a quotient of S^4 or a quotient of S^3 cross R. This gives a clean classification result removing the earlier additional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Xiaolong Li , Lei Ni , Kui Wang

In this article we have showed that a gradient $\rho$-Einstein soliton with a vector field of bounded norm and satisfying some other conditions is isometric to the Euclidean sphere. Later, we have proved that a non-trivial complete gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Absos Ali Shaikh , Antonio W. Cunha , Prosenjit Mandal

The goal of this article is to investigate complete noncompact warped product gradient Ricci solitons. Nonexistence results, estimates for the warping function and for its gradient are proven. When the soliton is steady or expanding these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Valter Borges

In this paper, we establish a new volume comparison theorem for a complete manifold with a function $\rho(x)$ as the lower bound of the Bakry-Emery Ricci curvature. As applications, we obtain a new volume rigidity result of the gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Wen-Qi Li

We classify four-dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons satisfying $Sec \geq \frac{1}{24} R$, where $Sec$ and $R$ denote the sectional and the scalar curvature, respectively. They are isometric to either $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ (and quotients),…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Giovanni Catino

We first investigate the asymptotics of conical expanding gradient Ricci solitons by proving sharp decay rates to the asymptotic cone both in the generic and the asymptotically Ricci flat case. We then establish a compactness theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Alix Deruelle

We discuss some geometric conditions under which a complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci soliton will split at infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Bennett Chow , Peng Lu

We establish integral curvature estimates for complete gradient shrinking Sasaki-Ricci solitons. As an application, we show that any such soliton with harmonic Weyl tensor must be a finite quotient of a sphere. This result can be regarded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Shu-Cheng Chang , Hongbing Qiu

For any complete and noncompact manifold $M$ with $\mathrm{Ric}\ge 0$, we define a function $\mathrm{RV}(s)$ that describes the growth of relative volume asymptotically $$\mathrm{RV}(s)=\limsup_{r\to\infty} \dfrac{\mathrm{vol}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Dimitri Navarro , Jiayin Pan , Xingyu Zhu

In this paper, we establish several sufficient and necessary conditions for the convergence of a K\"ahler-Ricci flow, on a K\"ahler manifold with positive first Chern class, to a K\"ahler-Einstein metric (or a shrinking K\"ahler-Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-09 Zhenlei Zhang

In this paper we study the gradient Ricci shrinking soliton equation on rotationally symmetric manifolds of dimension three and higher and prove that the only complete examples of such metrics on $S^n$, $\R{n}$ and $\R{}\times S^{n-1}$ are,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brett Kotschwar

For complete shrinking (gradient) Ricci solitons, we observe a quantification of Wylie's result that the fundamental group is finite.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Bennett Chow , Peng Lu