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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

We prove some boundary rigidity results for the hemisphere under a lower bound for Ricci curvature. The main result can be viewed as the Ricci version of a conjecture of Min-Oo.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

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

Let $(M, g, f)$ be a $5$-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f= \lambda g$, where $\text{Ric}$ is the Ricci tensor and $\nabla^2f$ is the Hessian of the potential function $f$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Fengjiang Li , Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

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

In this paper we provide some local and global splitting results on complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We achieve the splitting through the analysis of some pointwise inequalities of Modica type which hold true…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Alberto Farina , Jesús Ocáriz

A closed four dimensional manifold cannot possess a non-flat Ricci soliton metric with arbitrarily small $L^2$-norm of the curvature. In this paper, we localize this fact in the case of shrinking Ricci solitons by proving an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Shaosai Huang

We prove that a shrinking gradient Ricci soliton which agrees to infinite order at spatial infinity with one of the standard cylindrical metrics on $S^k\times \RR^{n-k}$ for $k\geq 2$ along some end must be isometric to the cylinder on that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Brett Kotschwar , Lu Wang

In this paper, an obstruction against the integrability of certain infinitesimal solitonic deformations is given. Using this obstruction, we show that the complex projective spaces of even complex dimension are rigid as Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Klaus Kroencke

We show that for an $n$ dimensional complete non Ricci flat gradient steady Ricci soliton with potential function $f$ bounded above by a constant and curvature tensor $Rm$ satisfying $\overline{\lim}_{r\to \infty} r|Rm|<\frac{1}{5}$, then…

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

In this paper, we extend the work of Cao-Chen [9] on Bach-flat gradient Ricci solitons to classify $n$-dimensional ($n\ge 5$) complete $D$-flat gradient steady Ricci solitons. More precisely, we prove that any $n$-dimensional complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Jiangtao Yu

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

This is a sequel to our paper [24], in which we investigated the geometry of 4-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive (nonnegative) isotropic curvature. In this paper, we mainly focus on 4-dimensional gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

We classify and expose all the gradient Ricci solitons on complete surfaces, open or closed, with curvature bounded below, and possibly with a discrete set of cone-like singular points that arise naturally. We give a precise qualitative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-24 Daniel Ramos

In this paper, we prove that expanding gradient Ricci solitons with (positively) pinched Ricci curvature are trivial ones. Namely, they are either compact or flat.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Li Ma

In this paper, we derive curvature estimates for 4-dimensional complete gradient expanding Ricci solitons with nonnegative Ricci curvature (outside a compact set $K$). More precisely, we prove that the norm of the curvature tensor $Rm$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Tianbo Liu

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 prove classification results for gradient shrinking Ricci solitons under two invariant conditions, namely nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature and weakly PIC1, without any curvature bound. New results on ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Xiaolong Li , Lei Ni

A compactness theorem is proved for a family of K\"{a}hler surfaces with constant scalar curvature and volume bounded from below, diameter bounded from above, Ricci curvature bounded and the signature bounded from below. Furthermore, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Hongliang Shao

We first show that any $4$-dimensional non-Ricci-flat steady gradient Ricci soliton singularity model must satisfy $|Rm|\leq cR$ for some positive constant $c$. Then, we apply the Hamilton-Ivey estimate to prove a quantitative lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang
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