arXiv research

New classification of gradient steady Ricci solitons with vanishing D-tensor.

In this paper, we classify n-dimensional (n>2) complete noncompact locally conformally flat gradient steady solitons. In particular, we prove that a complete noncompact non-flat conformally flat gradient steady Ricci soliton is, up to scaling, the Bryant soliton.

The paper classifies 3D complete gradient Yamabe solitons.

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 soliton with divergence-free Bach tensor is either flat or isometric to the Bryant sol…

Study proves rigidity of certain gradient steady Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl curvature.

The paper examines gradient Ricci solitons on orbifolds and proves their rigidity properties.

Let $(M,g,f)$ be a 3-dimensional complete steady gradient Ricci soliton. Assume that $M$ is rectifiable, that is, the potential function can be written as $f=f(r)$, where $r$ is a distance function. Then, we prove that $M$ is isometric to (1) a quotient of $\mathbb{R}^3$, or (2) the Bryant soliton. In particular, we sh…

The study classifies specific types of solitons with bounded scalar curvature.

Unique soliton found on resolved cones.

New explicit Calabi-Yau metrics and Kähler-Ricci solitons found on complex n-space.

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 product metric. R. Hamilton has conjectured that there should exist a family of colla…

Study classifies 4D Ricci solitons with specific curvature conditions.

New steady gradient Ricci solitons found on specific four-manifolds.

Paper studies fundamental groups of certain Ricci solitons.

In this paper, we show that steady or shrinking complete gradient Yamabe solitons with finite total scalar curvature and non-positive Ricci curvature are Ricci flat. Moreover, under certain pinching condition for Ricci curvature, we show that steady or shrinking complete gradient Yamabe solitons with finite total scala…

We show that for an $n$ dimensional complete non Ricci flat gradient steady Ricci soliton with potential function $f$ bounded above by a constant and curvature tensor $Rm$ satisfying $\overline{\lim}_{r\to \infty} r|Rm|<\frac{1}{5}$, then $|Rm|\leq Ce^{-r}$ for some constant $C>0$, improving a result of [36]. For any f…

In this paper, we give a delay estimate of scalar curvature for a complete non-compact expanding (or steady) gradient Ricci soliton with nonnegative Ricci curvature. As an application, we prove that any complete non-compact expanding (or steady) gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons with positively pinched Ricci curvature sho…

Study steady gradient Ricci solitons with cylindrical tangent flows at infinity.

Researchers create a family of solitons connecting a cigar to a sphere.

We produce new non-Kähler complete steady gradient Ricci solitons whose asymptotics combine those of the Bryant solitons and the Hamilton cigar. We also obtain a family of complete Ricci-flat metrics with asymptotically locally conical asymptotics. Finally, we obtain numerical evidence for complete steady soliton struc…

Study on curvature decay in steady Ricci solitons, proving dichotomy.

Study on Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric manifolds, proving rigidity.

New steady solitons found with SO(3) symmetry.

We show for a complete noncompact steady Ricci soliton that there exists a sequence {x_i} of points tending to infinity such that |Rc|(x_i) limits to zero.

The paper classifies invariant gradient $k$-Yamabe solitons in pseudo-Euclidean spaces.

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 classification in dimension three.

Study of solitons in Laplacian flow on 7-manifolds.

We characterize complete nonnegatively curved steady gradient soliton with curvature in L^1. We show that there are isometric to a product (R^2,g_{cigar}) times(R^{n-2}, eucl))/Gamma where Gamma is a Bieberbach group of rank n-2. We prove also a similar local splitting result under weaker curvature assumptions.

Study 4D solitons with specific curvature properties, proving curvature bounds and classifying solutions.

The study classifies steady Ricci solitons based on geometric conditions.

New Kähler solitons found that are not $U(n)$-invariant.

Researchers found cylindrical steady gradient solitons in 3D.

We produce non-Kähler complete steady gradient Ricci solitons generalising those constructed by Bryant and Ivey.

The purpose of this article is to study gradient Yamabe soliton on warped product manifolds. First, we prove triviality results in the case of noncompact base with limited warping function, and for compact base. In order to provide nontrivial examples, we consider the base conformal to a semi-Euclidean space, which is …

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 conformally flat and symmetric Lorentzian Ricci solitons which are not rigid.

We study closed ancient solutions to gradient flows of elliptic functionals in Riemannian manifolds, including mean curvature flow and harmonic map heat flow. Our work has various consequences. In all dimensions and codimensions, we classify ancient mean curvature flows in S^n with low area: they are steady or shrinkin…

New gradient Ricci solitons found via fiber bundles.

We show the existence and uniqueness of a one-parameter family of smooth complete $U(1)$-invariant gradient steady Ricci solitons on the total space of any complex line bundle over a Fano Kähler-Einstein base with first Chern class proportional to that of the base. These solitons are non-Kähler except on the total spac…

The article characterizes gradient ρ-Einstein solitons under specific conditions.

No nontrivial harmonic 1-forms on certain gradient Ricci solitons.

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 consequence, we show that a gradient steady Ricci soliton with bounded potential…

Study on gradient Ricci solitons with isoparametric potential functions.

In this paper we prove new classification results for nonnegatively curved gradient expanding and steady Ricci solitons in dimension three and above, under suitable integral assumptions on the scalar curvature of the underlying Riemannian manifold. In particular we show that the only complete expanding solitons with no…

In this paper, we prove that complete gradient steady Kähler-Ricci solitons with harmonic Bochner tensor are necessarily Kähler-Ricci flat, i.e., Calabi-Yau, and that complete gradient shrinking (or expanding) Kähler-Ricci solitons with harmonic Bochner tensor must be isometric to a quotient of $N^k\times \mathbb{C}^{n…

Study on scalar curvature decay in four-dimensional steady solitons.

3D steady gradient Ricci solitons are all O(2)-symmetric.

By extending Koiso's examples to the non-compact case, we construct complete gradient Kahler-Ricci solitons of various types on certain holomorphic line bundles over compact Kahler-Einstein manifolds. Moreover, a uniformization result on steady gradient Kahler-Ricci solitons with non-negative Ricci curvature is obtaine…

Paper proves volume growth estimate for steady gradient Ricci solitons.