Paper · Jun 4, 2025

On Ricci Solitons with Isoparametric Potential Functions

Hung Tran, Kazuo Yamazaki

math.DGarXiv:2506.03545Math. Z. 312, 45 (2026)
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This paper studies a complete gradient Ricci soliton with an isoparametric potential function. Our first theorem asserts that, for the steady case, there is a critical level set of codimension greater than one. This is consistent with construction of cohomogeneity one models with singular orbits. There is a partial result for the shrinking case. We also study a particular ansatz of popular interest and obtain asymptotic behaviors.

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    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.