Paper · Jan 29, 2021

Rigidity of Complete Gradient Steady Ricci Solitons with Harmonic Weyl Curvature

Fengjiang Li

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Abstract

Our main aim in this paper is to investigate the rigidity of complete noncompact gradient steady Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor. More precisely, we prove that an -dimensional () complete noncompact gradient steady Ricci soliton with harmonic Weyl tensor and multiply warped product metric is either Ricci flat or isometric to the Bryant soliton up to scaling. Meanwhile, for , we provide a local structure theorem for -dimensional connected (not necessarily complete) gradient Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl curvature and multiply warped product metric.

Submitted
Jan 29, 2021
Last revised
May 17, 2023 (v3)
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 27 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.02827 by other authors

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