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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 note we prove that any four-dimensional half conformally flat gradient steady Ricci soliton must be either Bryant's soliton or Ricci flat. We also classify four-dimensional half conformally flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-08 Xiuxiong Chen , Yuanqi Wang

In this paper we study the behavior of the scalar curvature at infinity on complete noncompact steady gradient Ricci solitons. In dimension four, we assume that the canonical Ricci flow induced by the soliton is a weak $\kappa$-solution and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Aprameya Girish Hebbar , Natasa Sesum

In this note, we study the classification of four-dimensional complete gradient steady and expanding Ricci solitons. Specifically, under the asymptotically cylindrical (respectively, asymptotically conical) assumption, we classify gradient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

In this paper, we prove some classification results for four-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons. For a four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with $div^4Rm^\pm=0$, we show that it is either Einstein or a finite quotient of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Fei Yang , Liangdi Zhang

In this paper we study 4d gradient steady Ricci solitons, which are weak $\kappa$-solutions, and admit O(3)-symmetry. Under a weak curvature decay condition, we find precise geometric asymptotics of such solitons, which are similar to those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Zilu Ma , Hamidreza Mahmoudian , Natasa Sesum

In this paper we classify the four dimensional gradient shrinking solitons under certain curvature conditions satisfied by all solitons arising from finite time singularities of Ricci flow on compact four manifolds with positive isotropic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-18 Lei Ni , Nolan Wallach

In this article, we investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons close to a K\"ahler model. The first theorem could be considered as a rigidity result for the K\"ahler-Ricci soliton structure on $\mathbb{S}^2\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Xiaodong Cao , Ernani Ribeiro , Hung Tran

In this paper we prove that any $n$-dimensional ($n\ge 4$) complete Bach-flat gradient steady Ricci soliton with positive Ricci curvature is isometric to the Bryant soliton. We also show that a three-dimensional gradient steady Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Huai-Dong Cao , Giovanni Catino , Qiang Chen , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

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

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 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 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 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

In the framework of the study of homogeneous Lorentzian three-manifolds, we consider here the only class of examples which admit a four-dimensional group of isometries but are neither Lorentzian Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces nor plane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Giovanni Calvaruso , Lorenzo Pellegrino , Amirhesam Zaeim

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

We show that a three-dimensional steady gradient Ricci soliton which is asymptotic to the Bryant soliton in a suitable sense must be isometric to the Bryant soliton.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-30 S. Brendle

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

In this paper, we give a description for steady Ricci solitons with a linear decay of sectional curvature. In particular, we classify all 3-dimensional steady Ricci solitons and 4-dimensional $\kappa$-noncollpased steady Ricci solitons with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Yuxing Deng , Xiaohua Zhu

In this paper, we have proved that if a complete conformally flat gradient shrinking Ricci soliton has linear volume growth or the scalar curvature is finitely integrable and also the reciprocal of the potential function is subharmonic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Absos Ali Shaikh , Chandan Kumar Mondal
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