On the rigidity of harmonic-Ricci solitons (Q2127858)

The author introduce the notion of rigidity for harmonic-Ricci solitons and provide some characterizations of rigidity, generalizing known results for Ricci solitons. Having completeness in the background, steady and shrinking gradient solitons cases are studied, while in the compact case, the general solitons without further assumptions are discussed. The author show that the rigidity can be traced back to the vanishing of certain modified curvature tensors that take into account the geometry of a Riemannian manifold equipped with a smooth map \(\phi\), called \(\phi\)-curvature, which is a natural generalization in the setting of harmonic-Ricci solitons of the standard curvature tensor.