Paper · Feb 12, 2020

A criterion for the triviality of non-steady gradient Ricci solitons

Mohammed Guediri

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Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to show that a normalized non-steady gradient Ricci soliton (M,g,f,λ) of dimension n is trivial if and only if its scalar curvature S satisfies the equality S=λ(f+(n/2)).

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Feb 12, 2020
Subjects
math.DG

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