Paper · May 27, 2017

Rigidity of Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons

Fei Yang, Liangdi Zhang

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Abstract

We prove that a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with fourth order divergence-free Riemannian tensor is rigid. For the -dimensional case, we show that any gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with fourth order divergence-free Riemannian tensor is either Einstein, or a finite quotient of the Gaussian shrinking soliton , or the round cylinder . Under the condition of fourth order divergence-free Weyl tensor, we have the same results.

Submitted
May 27, 2017
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 26 pages

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