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We are concerned in this article with a classical topic in spectral geometry dating back to McKean-Singer, Patodi and Tanno: whether or not the constancy of sectional curvature (resp. holomorphic sectional curvature) of a compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Ping Li , Xiaomei Sun , Anqiang Zhu

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

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

We prove that an $n$-dimensional, $n\geq4$, compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying a $L^{\frac n2}$-pinching condition is isometric to a quotient of the round $\mathbb{S}^n$, which improves the rigidity theorem given by G.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Hai-Ping Fu , Li-Qun Xiao

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

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

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

In this paper, we establish a compactness theorem for gradient Ricci solitons with scalar curvature bounds and uniform lower bounds of harmonic coordinates. Our approach is to bootstrap regularity in harmonic coordinates by exploiting the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Ming Hsiao

In this paper, we derive certain curvature estimates for 4-dimensional gradient steady Ricci solitons either with positive Ricci curvature or with scalar curvature decay.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Huai-Dong Cao , Xin Cui

We first show that a K\"ahler cone appears as the tangent cone of a complete expanding gradient K\"ahler-Ricci soliton with quadratic curvature decay with derivatives if and only if it has a smooth canonical model (on which the soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Ronan J. Conlon , Alix Deruelle , Song Sun

In this short note, using an argument by Munteanu and Wang, we provide an alternative proof of the fact first obtained by Lei Ni that shrinking gradient K\"ahler-Ricci solitons with positive bisectional curvature must be compact.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Guoqiang Wu , Shijin Zhang

In this paper, we will give a local version of the Hamilton-Ivey type pinching estimate of the gradient shrinking soliton with vanishing Weyl tensor, and then give a complete classification on gradient shrinking solitons with vanishing Weyl…

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

We show that gradient shrinking, expanding or steady Ricci solitons have potentials leading to suitable reference probability measures on the manifold. For shrinking solitons, as well as expanding soltions with nonnegative Ricci curvature,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-11 Jose Carrillo , Lei Ni

In this paper, we prove that a gradient shrinking compact K\"ahler-Ricci soliton cannot have too large Ricci curvature unless it is K\"ahler-Einstein.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-01 Haozhao Li

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 study stability of non-compact gradient Kaehler-Ricci flow solitons with positive holomorphic bisectional curvature. Our main result is that any compactly supported perturbation and appropriately decaying perturbations of the Kaehler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Albert Chau , Oliver C. Schnuerer

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

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 classify complete gradient Ricci solitons satisfying a fourth-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor, improving previously known results. More precisely, we show that any $n$-dimensional ($n\geq 4$) gradient shrinking Ricci soliton…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario Daniele Monticelli

In this paper, we study the following conjecture of Hamilton: Any compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator must be Einstein. We first derive several identities. Then we show that the conjecture is true under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Cao