Gradient Einstein solitons

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Abstract: In this paper we consider a perturbation of the Ricci solitons equation proposed by J. P. Bourguignon in cite{jpb1}. We show that these structures are more rigid then standard Ricci solitons. In particular, we prove that there is only one complete three--dimensional, positively curved, Riemannian manifold satisfying Ric -frac{1}{2} R , g , + , abla^2 f , = ,0,, for some smooth function f. This solution is rotationally symmetric and asymptotically cylindrical and it represents the analogue of the Hamilton's cigar in dimension three. The key ingredient in the proof is the rectifiability of the potential function f. It turns out that this property holds also in the Lorentzian setting and for a more general class of structures which includes some gravitational theories.



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