Paper · Jul 4, 2023

Vanishing bach-like tensors on complete gradient shrinking ricci solitons

James Siene

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Abstract

The Bach tensor is classically defined in dimension 4, and work from J. Bergman and others shows that where and are more basic 2-tensors, which are symmetric, divergence-free, algebraically independent, and quadratic in the Riemann tensor. In this paper, we extend H.-D. Cao and Q. Chen's results for Bach-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons to solitons with .

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Jul 4, 2023
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 19 Pages, 1 Figure

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