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We improve the well known local gradient estimate of Cheng and Yau in the case when Ricci curvature has a negative lower bound.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Ovidiu Munteanu

In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki

The main purpose of this article is to provide an alternate proof to a result of Perelman on gradient shrinking solitons. In dimension three we also generalize the result by removing the $\kappa$-non-collapsing assumption. In high dimension…

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

In this paper, we study the fundamental group of the complete steady gradient Ricci soliton with nonnegative sectional curvature. We prove that the fundamental group of such a Ricci soliton is either trivial or infinite. As a corollary, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Yuxing Deng , Yuehan Hao

We prove some results for the solitons of the Ricci-Bourguignon flow, generalizing corresponding results for Ricci solitons. Taking motivation from Ricci almost solitons, we then introduce the notion of Ricci-Bourguignon $almost$ solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Shubham Dwivedi

In this note we give a heat kernel lower bound in term of integral Ricci curvature, extending Cheeger-Yau's estimate.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianzhe Dai , Guofang Wei

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 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 paper, we study the gradient Ricci soliton equation on a complete Riemannian manifold. We show that under a natural decay condition on the Ricci curvature, the Ricci soliton is Ricci-flat and ALE.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma

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

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 prove a lower bound estimate for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Witten-Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds. As an application, we derive a lower bound estimate for the diameter of compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Akito Futaki , Haizhong Li , Xiang-Dong Li

Expository observation on the $\mu$-invariant of singularity models for Ricci Flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Bennett Chow

We prove that there exists a gradient expanding Ricci soliton asymptotic to any given cone over the product of a round sphere and a Ricci flat manifold. In particular we obtain asymptotically conical expanding Ricci solitons with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jan Nienhaus , Matthias Wink

In this article we have proved that a gradient Yamabe soliton satisfying some additional conditions must be of constant scalar curvature. Later, we have showed that in a gradient expanding or steady Yamabe soliton with non-negative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal

This manuscript investigates the curvature and topological properties of certain $\infty$-Einstein Finsler metrics on Finsler metric measure spaces. By imposing symmetry conditions, we construct a series of special metrics and analyze their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Bin Shen

We study the non Ricci flat gradient steady K\"{a}hler Ricci soliton with non-negative Ricci curvature and weak integrability condition of the scalar curvature $S$, namely $\underline{\lim}_{r\to \infty} r^{-1}\int_{B_r} S=0$, and show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Pak-Yeung Chan

We develop a method for constructing complete gradient Ricci solitons realized as fiber bundles endowed with warped metrics, and we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for their existence. As an application, we present new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 José Nazareno Vieira Gomes , Marcus Antonio Mendonça Marrocos

In this paper, we survey the volume growth estimates for shrinking, steady, and expanding gradient Ricci solitons. Together with the known results, we also prove some new volume growth estimates for expanding gradient Ricci solitons.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the geometry of 4-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive isotropic curvature (half PIC) or half nonnegative isotropic curvature. Our first main result is a certain form of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie