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In this article, we investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons close to a K\"ahler model. The first theorem could be considered as a rigidity result for the K\"ahler-Ricci soliton structure on $\mathbb{S}^2\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Xiaodong Cao , Ernani Ribeiro , Hung Tran

In this article, we investigate a gradient almost Ricci soliton with harmonic Weyl tensor. We first prove that its Ricci tensor has at most three distinct eigenvalues of constant multiplicities in a neighborhood of a regular point of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Valter Borges , Matheus Andrade Ribeiro de Moura Horácio , João Paulo dos Santos

In this article, we give a new proof of a result due to J. Kim, which states that the Ricci tensor of a gradient Ricci soliton with dimension $n \geq 4$ and harmonic Weyl tensor has at most three distinct eigenvalues. This result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Valter Borges , Matheus Andrade Ribeiro de Moura Horácio , João Paulo dos Santos

We investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with positive modified sectional curvature. Our first main result shows that if the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and the scalar curvature satisfy a certain sharp…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Xiaodong Cao , Ernani Ribeiro , Hosea Wondo

We show that the only complete shrinking gradient Ricci solitons with vanishing Weyl tensor are quotients of the standard ones. This gives a new proof of the Hamilton-Ivey-Perel'man classification of 3-dimensional shrinking gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

In this article, we study four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. We prove that a four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying a pointwise condition involving either the self-dual or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Ernani Ribeiro , Detang Zhou

Conformally recurrent pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of dimension n>4 are investigated. The Weyl tensor is represented as a Kulkarni-Nomizu product. If the square of the Weyl tensor is nonzero, a covariantly constant symmetric tensor is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

We develop a dimension-independent theory of alignment in Lorentzian geometry, and apply it to the tensor classification problem for the Weyl and Ricci tensors. First, we show that the alignment condition is equivalent to the PND equation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Milson , A. Coley , V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

We compute the evolution equation of the Weyl tensor under the Ricci flow of a Riemannian manifold and we discuss some consequences for the classification of locally conformally flat Ricci solitons.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Giovanni Catino , Carlo Mantegazza

The very definition of an Einstein metric implies that all its geometry is encoded in the Weyl tensor. With this in mind, in this paper we derive higher-order Bochner type formulas for the Weyl tensor on a four dimensional Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia

We introduce the new algebraic property of Weyl compatibility for symmetric tensors and vectors. It is strictly related to Riemann compatibility, which generalizes the Codazzi condition while preserving much of its geometric implications.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Carlo A. Mantica , Luca G. Molinari

We discuss the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor in higher dimensional Lorentzian manifolds. This is done by characterizing algebraically special Weyl tensors by means of the existence of aligned null vectors of various orders of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Coley , R. Milson , V. Pravda , A. Pravdova

Our main aim in this paper is to investigate the rigidity of complete noncompact gradient steady Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor. More precisely, we prove that an $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 5$) complete noncompact gradient steady…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Fengjiang Li

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 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

In this note, we study the classification of four-dimensional complete gradient steady and expanding Ricci solitons. Specifically, under the asymptotically cylindrical (respectively, asymptotically conical) assumption, we classify gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

We study a characterization of 4-dimensional (not necessarily complete) gradient Ricci solitons $(M, g, f)$ which have harmonic Weyl curvature, i.e. $\delta W=0$. Roughly speaking, we prove that the soliton metric $g$ is locally isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Jongsu Kim

We classify complete gradient Ricci solitons satisfying a fourth-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor, improving previously known results. More precisely, we show that any $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 4$) gradient shrinking Ricci soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario Daniele Monticelli

We conjecture that any scalar-flat K\"ahler surface in which the Weyl tensor acting on 2-forms annihilates the Ricci form must be either Ricci-flat or locally isometric to a Riemannian product of two real surfaces with mutually opposite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Andrzej Derdzinski , Sinhwi Kim , JeongHyeong Park

The Weyl and Ricci tensors can be algebraically classified in a Lorentzian spacetime of arbitrary dimensions using alignment theory. Used in tandem with the boost weight decomposition and curvature operators, the algebraic classification of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-10 Alan Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik
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