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Complete gradient expanding Ricci solitons with finite asymptotic scalar curvature ratio

Huai-Dong Cao, Tianbo Liu, Junming Xie

math.DGarXiv:2203.13178v2Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 62 (2023), no. 2, Paper No. 48, 19 pp
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Let , , be a complete gradient expanding Ricci soliton with nonnegative Ricci curvature . In this paper, we show that if the asymptotic scalar curvature ratio of is finite (i.e., ), then the Riemann curvature tensor must have at least sub-quadratic decay, namely, for any .

Comments: 20 pages. Lemma 3.1 statement simplified; the proof of Lemma 3.2 & Lemma 3.3 streamlined. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.09848

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