Rotationally symmetric shrinking and expanding gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons (Q1885375)

The authors construct very new families of Kähler-Ricci solitons and give examples of flowing through a singularity. They give the solitons living on complex line bundles over \(\mathbb{C} P^{n-1}\), \(n\geq 2\) and complement the examples of Cao and Koiso. Moreover, the new soliton can be combined with one of Cao's solitons to construct a noncompact Ricci flow that is smooth and self-similarly shrinking for \(t< 0\), becomes a metric cone at \(t= 0\), and then continues by smooth, self-similar expansion for \(t> 0\), with a change of topology. The authors also present shrinking solitons on a certain space with orbifold-type point singularities.