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We show that a shrinking Ricci soliton with positive sectional curvature must be compact. This extends a result of Perelman in dimension three and improves a result of Naber in dimension four, respectively.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

Let $(M, g, f)$ be a $4$-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f=\lambda g$, where $\lambda$ is a positive real number. We prove that if $M$ has constant scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Xu Cheng , Detang Zhou

We show that gradient shrinking, expanding or steady Ricci solitons have potentials leading to suitable reference probability measures on the manifold. For shrinking solitons, as well as expanding soltions with nonnegative Ricci curvature,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Jose Carrillo , Lei Ni

We prove that a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with fourth order divergence-free Riemannian tensor is rigid. For the $4$-dimensional case, we show that any gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with fourth order divergence-free Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Fei Yang , Liangdi Zhang

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

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 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

The paper mainly concerns the structure at infinity for complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. It is shown that for such a soliton with bounded curvature, if the round cylinder $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{S}^{n-1}/\Gamma$ occurs as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

In this paper, we prove the compactness theorem for gradient Ricci solitons. Let $(M_{\alpha}, g_{\alpha})$ be a sequence of compact gradient Ricci solitons of dimension $n\geq 4$, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded $L^{\frac{n}{2}}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Xi Zhang

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 have investigated some aspects of gradient $\rho$-Einstein Ricci soliton in a complete Riemannian manifold. First, we have proved that the compact gradient $\rho$-Einstein soliton is isometric to the Euclidean sphere by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal , Prosenjit Mandal

In this paper, we investigate curvature pinching phenomena in complete non-compact asymptotically conical gradient expanding Ricci solitons and establish several Hamilton-Ivey type curvature pinching estimates. These results are parallel to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

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 paper, we classify n-dimensional (n>3) complete Bach-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. More precisely, we prove that any 4-dimensional Bach-flat gradient shrinking Ricci soliton is either Einstein, or locally conformally flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Qiang Chen

In this paper we consider a perturbation of the Ricci solitons equation proposed in \cite{jpb1} and studied in \cite{CaMa} and we classify noncompact gradient shrinkers with bounded nonnegative sectional curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Giovanni Catino , Lorenzo Mazzieri , Samuele Mongodi

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

Suppose $(M, g, f)$ is a 5-dimensional complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton with $R=1$. If it has bounded curvature, we prove that it is a finite quotient of $\mathbb{R}^3\times \mathbb{S}^2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Fengjiang Li , Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

Cartan-Hadamard manifold is a simply connected Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. In this article, we have proved that a Cartan-Hadamard manifold satisfying steady gradient Ricci soliton with the integral condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Absos Ali Shaikh , Prosenjit Mandal , Chandan Kumar Mondal , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

We study the modified Ricci solitons as a new class of Einstein type metrics that contains both Ricci solitons and $n$-quasi-Einstein metrics. This class is closely related to the construction of the Ricci solitons that are realised as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Antonio Airton Freitas Filho

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