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In [Cheeger-Tian 2005], Cheeger-Tian proved an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for $4$-dimensional Einstein manifolds without volume assumption. They conjectured that similar results should hold for critical metrics with constant scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Huabin Ge , Wenshuai Jiang

In this paper, we study volume growth, Liouville theorem and the local gradient estimate for $f$-harmonic functions, and volume comparison property of unit balls in complete noncompact gradient Ricci shrinkers. We also study integral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Li Ma

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 article we have showed that a gradient $\rho$-Einstein soliton with a vector field of bounded norm and satisfying some other conditions is isometric to the Euclidean sphere. Later, we have proved that a non-trivial complete gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Absos Ali Shaikh , Antonio W. Cunha , Prosenjit Mandal

In this paper, we consider a left-invariant Riemannian metric $g$ on the Lie group $F^4$. We classify Ricci solitons on $(F^4,g)$ and show that all such solitons are expanding and non-gradient. Moreover, we study the existence of harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Halima Boukhari , Hadjer Okbani , Ahmed Mohammed Cherif

We bring new insights into the long-standing Alekseevskii conjecture, namely that any connected homogeneous Einstein manifold of negative scalar curvature is diffeomorphic to a Euclidean space, by proving structural results which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-25 Ramiro Lafuente , Jorge Lauret

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 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

Let $(M^n,g)$ be a complete Riemannian manifold which is not isometric to $\mathbb{R}^n$, has nonnegative Ricci curvature, Euclidean volume growth, and quadratic Riemann curvature decay. We prove that there exists a set $\mathcal{G}\subset…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Gioacchino Antonelli , Marco Pozzetta , Daniele Semola

We prove rigidity theorems for shrinking gradient Ricci solitons supporting the Heisenberg-Pauli-Weyl uncertainty principle with the sharp constant in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In addtion, we partially give analogous rigidity results of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Weixiong Mai , Jianyu Ou

Our main aim in this paper is to investigate the rigidity of complete noncompact gradient steady Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor. More precisely, we prove that an $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 5$) complete noncompact gradient steady…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Fengjiang Li

We consider a closed manifold M with a Riemannian metric g(t) evolving in direction -2S(t) where S(t) is a symmetric two-tensor on (M,g(t)). We prove that if S satisfies a certain tensor inequality, then one can construct a forwards and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

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

We prove the existence of a unique complete shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton with bounded scalar curvature on the blowup of $\mathbb{C}\times\mathbb{P}^{1}$ at one point. This completes the classification of such solitons in two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Richard H. Bamler , Charles Cifarelli , Ronan J. Conlon , Alix Deruelle

In this paper we prove that the Sobolev inequality, the logarithmic Sobolev inequality, the Schr\"odinger heat kernel upper bound, the Faber-Krahn inequality, the Nash inequality and the Rozenblum-Cwikel-Lieb inequality all equivalently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Jia-Yong Wu

A gradient Ricci soliton is a triple $(M,g,f)$ satisfying $R_{ij}+\nabla_i\nabla_j f=\lambda g_{ij}$ for some real number $\lambda$. In this paper, we will show that the completeness of the metric $g$ implies that of the vector field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-22 Zhu-Hong Zhang

In this article, we provide some volume growth estimates for complete noncompact gradient Ricci solitons and quasi-Einstein manifolds similar to the classical results by Bishop, Calabi and Yau for complete Riemannian manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Xu Cheng , Ernani Ribeiro , Detang Zhou

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

In this work, we derive the complete and explicit solution for the conformal Ricci-Bourguignon soliton on Vaidya spacetime. We provide the closed-form expression for the vector field and establish the necessary conditions for the existence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Ayaan Abdur Rehman , Narayan S Iyer , Naeem Ahmed Pundeer

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