Paper · Feb 27, 2022

Volume growth estimates of gradient Ricci solitons

Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang

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In this paper, we survey the volume growth estimates for shrinking, steady, and expanding gradient Ricci solitons. Together with the known results, we also prove some new volume growth estimates for expanding gradient Ricci solitons.

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    Richard H. Bamler, Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma et al. PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang · Shared terms “growth estimate”, “volume growth”, “gradient Ricci”

  2. Hamilton-Ivey estimates for gradient Ricci solitons

    Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma and Yongjia Zhang PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang · Shared terms “gradient Ricci”, “expanding gradient”

  3. On noncollapsed -limit metric solitons

    Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma and Yongjia Zhang PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang · Shared terms “volume growth”

  4. On the weakly conical expanding gradient Ricci solitons

    Pak-Yeung Chan and Man-Chun Lee PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same author Pak-Yeung Chan · Shared terms “expanding gradient”, “gradient Ricci”

  5. Dimension Reduction for Positively Curved Steady Solitons

    Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma and Yongjia Zhang PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang · Shared terms “gradient Ricci”

  6. Expanding Ricci solitons coming out of weakly PIC1 metric cones

    Pak-Yeung Chan, Man-Chun Lee and Luke T. Peachey PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same author Pak-Yeung Chan · Shared terms “volume growth”, “expanding gradient”, “gradient Ricci”

  7. A local gap theorem for Ricci shrinkers

    Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma and Yongjia Zhang PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang

  8. Rigidity and gap theorems for Ricci shrinkers

    Pak-Yeung Chan and Yongjia Zhang PDF

    Topics Ricci solitons · Same authors Pak-Yeung Chan, Yongjia Zhang

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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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    The Asymptotic Soliton and Three-Dimensional ShrinkersBook 12B · κ-Solutions and Surgery

    Perelman's Proposition 11.2 proved with Morgan and Tian: the reduced-length bounds on κ-solutions, the limit of rescalings, the equality case, and the classification of shrinking solitons in dimensions two and three.