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We establish integral curvature estimates for complete gradient shrinking Sasaki-Ricci solitons. As an application, we show that any such soliton with harmonic Weyl tensor must be a finite quotient of a sphere. This result can be regarded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Shu-Cheng Chang , Hongbing Qiu

Suppose $(M^n, g, f)$ is a complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton. We give several rigidity results under some natural conditions, generalizing the results in \cite{Petersen-Wylie,Guan-Lu-Xu}. Using maximum principle, we prove that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

We study a characterization of 4-dimensional (not necessarily complete) gradient Ricci solitons $(M, g, f)$ which have harmonic Weyl curvature, i.e. $\delta W=0$. Roughly speaking, we prove that the soliton metric $g$ is locally isometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Jongsu Kim

Haslhofer and M\"uller proved a compactness Theorem for four-dimensional shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, with the only assumption being that the entropy is uniformly bounded from below. However, the limit in their result could possibly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Yongjia Zhang

In the first part of the paper we derive integral curvature estimates for complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our results and the recent work of Lopez-Rio imply rigidity of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-07 Ovidiu Munteanu , Natasa Sesum

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

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

In this paper, we prove rigidity results on gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with weakly harmonic Weyl curvature tensors. Let $(M^n, g)$ be a compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying ${\rm Ric}_g + Ddf = \rho g$ with $\rho >0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Seungsu Hwang , Gabjin Yun

This paper derives new identities for the Weyl tensor on a gradient Ricci soliton, particularly in dimension four. First, we prove a Bochner-Weitzenb\"ock type formula for the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and discuss its applications,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

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

We prove that a $n$-dimensional, $4 \leq n \leq 6$, compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying a $L^{n/2}$-pinching condition is isometric to a quotient of the round $\mathbb{S}^{n}$. The proof relies mainly on sharp algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Giovanni Catino

Let $(M^4, g, f)$ be a four-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f= \frac{1}{2}g$. If its scalar curvature is $1$, Cheng-Zhou \cite{Cheng-Zhou} proved that it is a finite quotient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Chen Wang , Guoqiang Wu

In this survey paper, we analyse and compare the recent curvature estimates for three types of $4$-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons, especially between Ricci shrinkers [58] and expanders [17]. In addition, we provide some new curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Huai-Dong Cao

In this paper, we study the complete gradient Ricci solitons $(M^n, g,f)$ with zero radial Weyl curvature, which means that the interior product of $\nabla f$ with the Weyl tensor $W$ is zero, i.e., $i_{\nabla f}W=0$. We classify completely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Tongzhu Li , Junlong Yu

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

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the curvature behavior of four dimensional shrinking gradient Ricci solitons. For such soliton $M$ with bounded scalar curvature $S$, it is shown that the curvature operator $\mathrm{Rm}$ of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping 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

In this paper, we study gradient Ricci soitons on smooth orbifolds. We prove that the scalar curvature of a complete shrinking or steady gradient Ricci soliton on an orbifold is nonnegative. We also show that a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yuxing Deng

In this paper, we will study the asymptotic geometry of 4-dimensional steady gradient Ricci solitons under the condition that they dimension reduce to $3$-manifolds. We will show that such 4-dimensional steady gradient Ricci solitons either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Bennett Chow , Yuxing Deng , Zilu Ma

We show that sequences of compact gradient Ricci solitons converge to complete orbifold gradient solitons, assuming constraints on volume, the $L^{n/2}$-norm of curvature, and the auxiliary constant $C_1$. The strongest results are in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Brian Weber