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We show that a complete gradient Ricci soliton $(M^n,\,g)$ with constant scalar curvature and a non-parallel closed conformal vector field is isometric to either the Euclidean space, or an Euclidean sphere, or negatively Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-28 J. F. Siva Filho , R. Sharma

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 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

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 prove structure results for homogeneous spaces that support a non-constant solution to two general classes of equations involving the Hessian of a function and an invariant 2-tensor. We also consider trace-free versions of these systems.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

We prove that the four-dimensional blowdown shrinking Ricci soliton constructed by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf is strictly linearly stable in the sense of Cao-Hamilton-Ilmanen. This provides the first known example of a non-cylindrical linearly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Keaton Naff , Tristan Ozuch

We consider noncollapsed steady gradient Ricci solitons with nonnegative sectional curvature. We show that such solitons always dimension reduce at infinity. This generalizes an earlier result in [CDM22] to higher dimensions. In dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

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

We show that a complete Riemannian manifold has finite topological type (i.e., homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary), provided its Bakry-\'{E}mery Ricci tensor has a positive lower bound, and either of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Fuquan Fang , Jianwen man , Zhenlei Zhang

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 this paper, we derive certain curvature estimates for 4-dimensional gradient steady Ricci solitons either with positive Ricci curvature or with scalar curvature decay.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Huai-Dong Cao , Xin Cui

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

We prove the following: Let (M,g,X) be a noncompact four dimensional shrinking soliton with bounded nonnegative curvature operator, then (M,g) is isometric to R^4 or a finite quotient of S^2xR^2 or S^3xR. In the process we also show that a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-09 Aaron Naber

In this paper we consider $4$-dimensional steady soliton singularity models, i.e., complete steady gradient Ricci solitons that arise as the rescaled limit of a finite time singular solution of the Ricci flow on a closed $4$-manifold. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Richard Bamler , Bennett Chow , Yuxing Deng , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

In this paper, we study several properties of Sasaki-Ricci solitons as singularity models of the Sasaki-Ricci flow. First, we establish several fundamental equations for Sasaki-Ricci solitons, which enable us to derive potential estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Shu-Cheng Chang , Fengjiang Li , Chien Lin , Hongbing Qiu

Let (M,g) be a steady gradient Ricci soliton of dimension n \geq 4 which has positive sectional curvature and is asymptotically cylindrical. Under these assumptions, we show that (M,g) is rotationally symmetric. In particular, our result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-25 S. Brendle

We first show that a K\"ahler cone appears as the tangent cone of a complete expanding gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton with quadratic curvature decay with derivatives if and only if it has a smooth canonical model (on which the soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Ronan J. Conlon , Alix Deruelle , Song Sun

We describe four-dimensional Lorentzian algebraic Ricci solitons. In sharp contrast with the Riemannian situation, any connected and simply connected four-dimensional Lie group admits a left-invariant Lorentz metric which is a Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Eduardo Garcia-Rio , Rosalia Rodriguez-Gigirey , Ramon Vazquez-Lorenzo

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

In this paper we prove new classification results for nonnegatively curved gradient expanding and steady Ricci solitons in dimension three and above, under suitable integral assumptions on the scalar curvature of the underlying Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario Daniele Monticelli