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We investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with positive modified sectional curvature. Our first main result shows that if the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and the scalar curvature satisfy a certain sharp…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Xiaodong Cao , Ernani Ribeiro , Hosea Wondo

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 note, we complete the classification of the geometry of non-compact two-dimensional gradient Ricci solitons. As a consequence, we obtain two corollaries: First, a complete two-dimensional gradient Ricci soliton has bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Jacob Bernstein , Thomas Mettler

We show that Lorentzian manifolds whose isometry group is of dimension at least $\frac{1}{2}n(n-1)+1$ are expanding, steady and shrinking Ricci solitons and steady gradient Ricci solitons. This provides examples of complete locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 W. Batat , M. Brozos-Vazquez , E. Garcia-Rio , S. Gavino-Fernandez

[Dedicated to Richard S. Hamilton on forty years of Ricci flow] Gradient Ricci solitons have garnered significant attention both as self-similar solutions and singularity models of the Ricci flow. This survey article starts with a list of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Xiaodong Cao , Hung Tran

We consider gradient Ricci solitons conformal to a $n$-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space and we completely describe the most general ansatz that reduces the resulting system of partial differential equations to a system of ordinary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Benedito Leandro , João Paulo dos Santos

This paper studies cohomogeneity one Ricci solitons. If the isotropy representation of the principal orbit $G/K$ consists of two inequivalent $Ad_K$-invariant irreducible summands, the existence of parameter families of non-homothetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Matthias Wink

We show that, up to biholomorphism, there is at most one complete $T^n$-invariant shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton on a non-compact toric manifold $M$. We also establish uniqueness without assuming $T^n$-invariance if the Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Charles Cifarelli

We describe the structure of the Ricci tensor on a locally homogeneous Lorentzian gradient Ricci soliton. In the non-steady case, we show the soliton is rigid in dimensions three and four. In the steady case, we give a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-11 M. Brozos-Vázquez , E. García-Río , P. Gilkey , S. Gavino-Fernández

We use the theory of isoparametric functions to investigate gradient Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature. We show rigidity of gradient Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature under some conditions on the Ricci tensor, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Manuel Fernandez-Lopez , Eduardo Garcia-Rio

In this paper we prove the compactness result for compact K\"ahler Ricci gradient shrinking solitons. If $(M_i,g_i)$ is a sequence of K\"ahler Ricci solitons of real dimension $n \ge 4$, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded $L^{n/2}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Natasa Sesum

In this paper, we prove the compactness theorem for gradient Ricci solitons. Let $(M_{\alpha}, g_{\alpha})$ be a sequence of compact gradient Ricci solitons of dimension $n\geq 4$, whose curvatures have uniformly bounded $L^{\frac{n}{2}}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Xi Zhang

We give a new proof for the existence of rotationally symmetric steady and expanding gradient Ricci solitons in dimension $n+1$, $2\le n\le 4$, with metric $g=\frac{da^2}{h(a^2)}+a^2d\,\sigma$ for some function $h$ where $d\sigma$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Shu-Yu Hsu

We consider four-dimensional homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with non-trivial isotropy and completely classify the cases giving rise to non-trivial homogeneous Ricci solitons. In particular, we show the existence of non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Giovanni Calvaruso , Anna Fino

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

Consider a smooth manifold $M$. Let $G$ be a compact Lie group which acts on $M$ with cohomogeneity one. Let $Q$ be a singular orbit for this action. We study the gradient Ricci soliton equation $\Hess(u)+\Ric(g)+\frac{\epsilon}{2}g=0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Maria Buzano

In this paper, we investigate the geometry of 4-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with half positive isotropic curvature (half PIC) or half nonnegative isotropic curvature. Our first main result is a certain form of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Huai-Dong Cao , Junming Xie

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

For each non-flat, unimodular Ricci soliton solvmanifold $(\mathsf{S}_0,g_0)$, we construct a one-parameter family of complete, expanding, gradient Ricci solitons that admit a cohomogeneity one isometric action by $\mathsf{S}_0$. The orbits…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Adam Thompson

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