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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

As of today, there are very few known complete shrinking Ricci solitons in dimension 4, and all examples discovered so far are K\"ahler and/or Einstein. In this note, we prove that any four dimensional J-invariant gradient shrinking Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong

We prove a parametrized compactness theorem on manifolds of bounded Ricci curvature, upper bounded diameter and lower bounded injectivity radius.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Xiang Li , Shicheng Xu

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

In this paper we consider the Ricci curvature of a Ricci soliton. In particular, we have showed that a complete gradient Ricci soliton with non-negative Ricci curvature possessing a non-constant convex potential function having finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Chandan Kumar Mondal , Absos Ali Shaikh

In this paper, we prove that any compact 2-sided smooth stable minimal hypersurface in gradient Ricci soliton $(M^{n},g,f)$ with scalar curvature $R\geq(n-1)\lambda$ must have vanished second fundamental form and vanished normal Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Yukai Sun , Guangrui Zhu

In this paper, we generalize Huber's finite point conformal compactification theorem to a higher dimensional manifold, which is conformally compact with $L^\frac{n}{2}$ integrable Ricci curvatures.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Bo Chen , Yuxiang Li

We obtain new topological restrictions for complete Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and RCD(0,n) spaces. Our main results are a Betti number rigidity theorem which answers a question open since work of M.-T. Anderson…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alessandro Cucinotta , Mattia Magnabosco , Daniele Semola

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 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

We prove a warped product splitting theorem for manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below in the spirit of [Croke-Kleiner, \emph{Duke Math.\;J}.\;(1992)], but instead of asking that one boundary component is compact and mean-convex,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Alessandro Cucinotta , Andrea Mondino

In this note, we obtain a sharp volume estimate for complete gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounded below by a positive constant. Using Chen-Yokota's argument we obtain a local lower bound estimate of the scalar curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Shijin Zhang

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

We show that, up to biholomorphism, a given noncompact complex manifold only admits one shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton with Ricci curvature tending to zero at infinity. Our result does not require fixing the asymptotic data of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Carlos Esparza

By extending Koiso's examples to the non-compact case, we construct complete gradient Kahler-Ricci solitons of various types on certain holomorphic line bundles over compact Kahler-Einstein manifolds. Moreover, a uniformization result on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-05 Bo Yang

In this note we will show the almost maximal volume entropy rigidity for manifolds with lower integral Ricci curvature bound in the non-collapsing case: Given $n, d, p>\frac{n}{2}$, there exist $\delta(n, d, p), \epsilon(n, d, p)>0$, such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Lina Chen

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

We introduce a natural extension of the concept of gradient Ricci soliton: the Ricci almost soliton. We provide existence and rigidity results, we deduce a-priori curvature estimates and isolation phenomena, and we investigate some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Stefano Pigola , Marco Rigoli , Michele Rimoldi , Alberto G. Setti

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

We prove a Lipschitz-Volume rigidity theorem for the non-collapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limits of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below. This is a counterpart of the Lipschitz-Volume rigidity in Alexandrov geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Nan Li , Feng Wang