Paper · Aug 22, 2026

The rigity of spaces with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor

Fengyuan Zhang

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The aim of this paper is to classify some special Riemannian manifolds with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor, i.e. \beginequation D_ijk=\nabla_iR_jk+\nabla_jR_ki+\nabla_kR_ij=0\nonumber \endequation These structures include non-compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton, compact -quasi-Einstein manifolds with boundary and critical spaces. We will construct some integral identities and make use of the curvature conditions reasonably to prove that the Ricci tensor is parallel.

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