Paper · Mar 16, 2016

Four-dimentional Gradient Shrinking Solitons with Positive Isotropic Curvature

Xiaolong Li, Lei Ni, Kui Wang

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Abstract

We show that a four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive isotropic curvature is either a quotient of S^4 or a quotient of S^3 cross R. This gives a clean classification result removing the earlier additional assumptions in [13] by Wallach and the second author.

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Mar 16, 2016
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 9 pages, Any comments are welcome

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    Ricci SolitonsBook 11B · Solitons, Compactness and Singularities

    Self-similar solutions: the Gaussian, cylinders, the cigar and the Bryant soliton.

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