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A Ricci soliton is a natural generalization of an Einstein metric. On a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g), it is defined by : $LX g + \r{ho} = {\lambda} g, where X is a smooth vector field on M , LX denotes the Lie derivative in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-15 A. Diatta , M. Ciss , A. S. Diallo

This short note concerns with two inequalities in the geometry of gradient Ricci solitons $(g, f, \lambda )$ on a smooth manifold $M$. These inequalities provide some relationships between the curvature of the Riemannian metric $g$ and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Mircea Crasmareanu

[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 study deformations of shrinking Ricci solitons on a compact manifold M, generalising the classical theory of deformations of Einstein metrics. Using appropriate notions of twisted slices S_f inside the space of all Riemannian metrics on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Fabio Podesta' , Andrea Spiro

We consider the volume-normalized Ricci flow close to compact shrinking Ricci solitons. We show that if a compact Ricci soliton $(M,g)$ is a local maximum of Perelman's shrinker entropy, any normalized Ricci flow starting close to it exists…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-29 Klaus Kroencke

Para-Ricci-like solitons with arbitrary potential on para-Sasaki-like Riemannian $\Pi$-manifolds are introduced and studied. For the studied soliton, it is proved that its Ricci tensor is a constant multiple of the vertical component of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Hristo Manev , Mancho Manev

Let $(M, g, f)$ be a $5$-dimensional complete noncompact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with the equation $Ric+\nabla^2f= \lambda g$, where $\text{Ric}$ is the Ricci tensor and $\nabla^2f$ is the Hessian of the potential function $f$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Fengjiang Li , Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

Quasi-Einstein manifolds are well-studied generalizations of Einstein manifolds. This includes gradient Ricci solitons and has a natural correspondence with the warped product Einstein manifolds. A quasi-Einstein metric is said to be rigid…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Atreyee Bhattacharya , Sayoojya Prakash

In this paper, we consider a left-invariant Riemannian metric $g$ on the Lie group $F^4$. We classify Ricci solitons on $(F^4,g)$ and show that all such solitons are expanding and non-gradient. Moreover, we study the existence of harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Halima Boukhari , Hadjer Okbani , Ahmed Mohammed Cherif

The aim of this paper is to classify three dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds $(M^{3},g)$ that admits a non-constant solution to the equation $$-\Delta f g+Hess f-fRic=\mu Ric+\lambda g,$$ for some special constants $(\mu, \lambda)$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Adam da Silva , Halyson Baltazar

In the paper, we study complete almost Ricci solitons using the concepts and methods of geometric dynamics and geometric analysis. In particular, we characterize Einstein manifolds in the class of complete almost Ricci solitons. Then, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Vladimir Rovenski , Sergey Stepanov , Irina Tsyganok

Ricci solitons are natural generalizations of Einstein metrics. They are also special solutions to Hamilton's Ricci flow and play important roles in the singularity study of the Ricci flow. In this paper, we survey some of the recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Huai-Dong Cao

In this short note, using G\"unther's volume comparison theorem and Yokota's gap theorem on complete shrinking gradient Ricci solitons, we prove that for any complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton $(M^{n},g,f)$ with sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Shijin Zhang

In this announcement, we exhibit the second variation of Perelman's $\lambda$ and $\nu$ functionals for the Ricci flow, and investigate the linear stability of examples. We also define the "central density" of a shrinking Ricci soliton and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huai-Dong Cao , Richard S. Hamilton , Tom Ilmanen

This article explores Ricci-Yamabe solitons on a specific class of 4-dimensional Walker manifolds. Walker manifolds, characterized by the existence of a parallel null distribution, find applications in general relativity and are fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Abdou Bousso , Ameth Ndiaye

We study a new notion of Ricci curvature that applies to Markov chains on discrete spaces. This notion relies on geodesic convexity of the entropy and is analogous to the one introduced by Lott, Sturm, and Villani for geodesic measure…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

In this paper we prove that there exists a compact perturbation of the Ricci flat Taub-Bolt metric that evolves under the Ricci flow into a finite time singularity modelled on the shrinking solition FIK [5]. Moreover, this perturbation can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-30 John Hughes

Suppose $(M, g, f)$ is a 5-dimensional complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton with $R=1$. If it has bounded curvature, we prove that it is a finite quotient of $\mathbb{R}^3\times \mathbb{S}^2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Fengjiang Li , Jianyu Ou , Yuanyuan Qu , Guoqiang Wu

We present a monotonic expression for the Ricci flow, valid in all dimensions and without curvature assumptions. It is interpreted as an entropy for a certain canonical ensemble. Several geometric applications are given. In particular, (1)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grisha Perelman

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