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In this paper we study potential function of gradient steady Ricci solitons. We prove that infimum of potential function decays linearly; in particular, potential function of rectifiable gradient steady Ricci solitons decays linearly. As a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Peng Wu

For complete shrinking (gradient) Ricci solitons, we observe a quantification of Wylie's result that the fundamental group is finite.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Bennett Chow , Peng Lu

For any $n\geq 4$, we construct an $(n-2)$-parameter family of steady gradient Ricci solitons with non-negative curvature operator and prescribed by the eigenvalues of Ricci tensor at a critical point of the soliton potential. Among them…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Pak-Yeung Chan , Yi Lai , Man-Chun Lee

We show that the scalar curvature of a steady gradient Ricci soliton satisfying that the ratio between the square norm of the Ricci tensor and the square of the scalar curvature is bounded by one half, is boundend from below by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-12 Manuel Fernandez-Lopez , Eduardo Garcia-Rio

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

We prove that there exists a gradient expanding Ricci soliton asymptotic to any given cone over the product of a round sphere and a Ricci flat manifold. In particular we obtain asymptotically conical expanding Ricci solitons with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jan Nienhaus , Matthias Wink

The only known example of collapsed three-dimensional complete gradient steady Ricci solitons so far is the 3D cigar soliton $N^2\times \mathbb{R}$, the product of Hamilton's cigar soliton $N^2$ and the real line $\mathbb{R}$ with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Chenxu He

In this paper, we investigate classifications of $4$-dimensional simply connected complete noncompact nonflat shrinkers satisfying $Ric+\mathrm{Hess}\,f=\tfrac 12g$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature. One one hand, we show that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Guoqiang Wu , Jia-yong Wu

In this paper we consider harmonic functions on gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature. A Liouville theorem is proved without using gradient estimate : any bounded harmonic function is constant on gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weixiong Mai , Jianyu Ou

In this paper we prove classification results for gradient shrinking Ricci solitons under two invariant conditions, namely nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature and weakly PIC1, without any curvature bound. New results on ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Xiaolong Li , Lei Ni

In this paper, we prove that complete gradient steady K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with harmonic Bochner tensor are necessarily K\"ahler-Ricci flat, i.e., Calabi-Yau, and that complete gradient shrinking (or expanding) K\"ahler-Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Qiang Chen , Meng Zhu

In this paper we prove that any complete conformal gradient soliton with nonnegative Ricci tensor is either isometric to a direct product $\mathbb{R}\times N^{n-1}$, or globally conformally equivalent to the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Giovanni Catino , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

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

We define a gradient Ricci soliton to be rigid if it is a flat bundle $% N\times_{\Gamma}\mathbb{R}^{k}$ where $N$ is Einstein. It is known that not all gradient solitons are rigid. Here we offer several natural conditions on the curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-18 Peter Petersen , William Wylie

We consider three- and four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian generalized symmetric spaces, whose invariant metrics were explicitly described in [15]. While four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian generalized symmetric spaces of types A, C and D are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Giovanni Calvaruso , Eugenia Rosado

We derive a sharp lower bound for the scalar curvature of non-flat and non-compact expanding gradient Ricci soliton provided that the scalar curvature is non-negative and the potential function is proper. We also give an upper bound for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Pak-Yeung Chan

Conformally quasi-recurrent (CQR)_n pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are investigated, and several new results are obtained. It is shown that the Ricci tensor and the gradient of the fundamental vector are Weyl compatible tensors (the notion was…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-30 C. A. Mantica , L. G. Molinari

In this paper, we prove that a compact quasi-Einstein manifold $(M^n,\,g,\,u)$ of dimension $n\geq 4$ with boundary $\partial M,$ nonnegative sectional curvature and zero radial Weyl tensor is either isometric, up to scaling, to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Rafael Diógenes , Tiago Gadelha , Ernani Ribeiro

We study the geometry at infinity of expanding gradient Ricci solitons of dimension greater than two with finite asymptotic curvature ratio without curvature sign assumptions. We mainly prove that they have a cone structure at infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Chih-Wei Chen , Alix Deruelle

In this paper we take a look at conditions that make a Riemann soliton trivial, compacity being one of them. We also show that the behaviour at infinity of the gradient field of a non-compact gradient Riemann soliton might cause the soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Tokura Willian , Barboza Marcelo , Batista Elismar , Menezes Ilton