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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

In this note we prove that any four-dimensional half conformally flat gradient steady Ricci soliton must be either Bryant's soliton or Ricci flat. We also classify four-dimensional half conformally flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-08 Xiuxiong Chen , Yuanqi Wang

The investigation of Ricci solitons is the focus of this work. We have proved triviality results for compact gradient Ricci soliton under certain restriction. Later, a rigidity result is derived for a compact gradient shrinking Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal , V. Amarendra Babu

In this paper, we first apply an integral identity on Ricci solitons to prove that closed locally conformally flat gradient Ricci solitons are of constant sectional curvature. We then generalize this integral identity to complete noncompact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-12 Xiaodong Cao , Biao Wang , Zhou Zhang

In this note, we complete the classification of the geometry of non-compact two-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons. As a consequence, we obtain two corollaries: First, a complete two-dimensional gradient Ricci soliton has bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Jacob Bernstein , Thomas Mettler

We study gradient Ricci solitons with maximal symmetry. First we show that there are no non-trivial homogeneous gradient Ricci solitons. Thus the most symmetry one can expect is an isometric cohomogeneity one group action. Many examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-24 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

We study integral and pointwise bounds on the curvature of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. As applications we discuss gap and compactness results for gradient shrinkers.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Ovidiu Munteanu , Mu-Tao Wang

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

In the first part of the paper we derive integral curvature estimates for complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our results and the recent work of Lopez-Rio imply rigidity of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-07 Ovidiu Munteanu , Natasa Sesum

We describe the structure of the Ricci tensor on a locally homogeneous Lorentzian gradient Ricci soliton. In the non-steady case, we show the soliton is rigid in dimensions three and four. In the steady case, we give a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-11 M. Brozos-Vázquez , E. García-Río , P. Gilkey , S. Gavino-Fernández

We study the stability of non compact steady and expanding gradient Ricci solitons. We first show that strict linear stability implies dynamical stability. Then we give various sufficient geometric conditions ensuring the strict linear…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Alix Deruelle

We show that Lorentzian manifolds whose isometry group is of dimension at least $\frac{1}{2}n(n-1)+1$ are expanding, steady and shrinking Ricci solitons and steady gradient Ricci solitons. This provides examples of complete locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 W. Batat , M. Brozos-Vazquez , E. Garcia-Rio , S. Gavino-Fernandez

In this paper we introduce the notion of rigidity for harmonic-Ricci solitons and we provide some characterizations of rigidity, generalizing some known results for Ricci solitons. In the compact case we are able to deal with not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Andrea Anselli

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

In this paper, we prove some classification results for four-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons. For a four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with $div^4Rm^\pm=0$, we show that it is either Einstein or a finite quotient of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Fei Yang , Liangdi Zhang

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

We prove that a steady gradient Ricci soliton is either Ricci flat with a constant potential function or a quotient of the product steady soliton $N^{n-1}\times\mathbb{R}$, where $N^{n-1}$ is Ricci flat, or isometric to the Bryant soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Benedito Leandro , Jeferson Poveda

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

In this paper, we prove that any complete shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with positive orthogonal bisectional curvature must be compact. We also obtain a classification of the complete shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Shijin Zhang

This paper studies a complete gradient Ricci soliton with an isoparametric potential function. Our first theorem asserts that, for the steady case, there is a critical level set of codimension greater than one. This is consistent with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Hung Tran , Kazuo Yamazaki