Paper · May 7, 2016

Note on asymptotically conical expanding Ricci solitons

John Lott, Patrick Wilson

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Abstract

We show that at the level of formal expansions, any compact Riemannian manifold is the sphere at infinity of an asymptotically conical gradient expanding Ricci soliton.

Submitted
May 7, 2016
Last revised
Dec 7, 2016 (v2)
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 5 pages, final version

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