Paper · May 20, 2026

Complete gradient Ricci solitons with zero radial Weyl curvature

Tongzhu Li, Junlong Yu

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the complete gradient Ricci solitons with zero radial Weyl curvature, which means that the interior product of with the Weyl tensor is zero, i.e., . We classify completely the complete gradient Ricci solitons with zero radial Weyl curvature for the dimension .

Submitted
May 20, 2026
Last revised
Jul 7, 2026 (v2)
Subjects
math.DG

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “Weyl curvature”, “gradient Ricci”

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “Weyl”, “complete gradient”

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “complete gradient”, “gradient Ricci”

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “Weyl curvature”, “complete gradient”

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “Weyl”, “complete gradient”, “gradient Ricci”

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