Harmonic forms and generalized solitons (Q6143038)

The soliton theory is an old theory introduced in 1834 by John Scott Russell who observed a wave keeping the shape while it propagates with a constant speed. The notion of a soliton as a stationary solution of a geometric flow on a Riemannian manifold was lately considered and extensively studied by important mathematicians such as Hamilton, Bourguignon, Calvino-Louzao and many others. Let \(\eta\) be a 1-form and \(\xi\) a vector field on a Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\). Then, \((g, \xi, \eta, \beta, \gamma, \delta)\) is said to define a generalized soliton on \(M\) if it satisfies the equation \(\frac12\mathcal{L}_g + \beta\cdot \mathrm{Ric} = \gamma\cdot g + \delta\cdot \eta \otimes \eta\) where \(\beta, \gamma, \delta\) are functions on \(M\). The authors establish certain relations between harmonicity and generalized solitons. For a generalized soliton \((g, \xi, \eta, \beta, \gamma, \delta)\) they derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the dual 1-form \(\xi^\flat\) of the potential field \(\xi\) to be a solution of the Schrödinger-Ricci equation, or a harmonic or Schrödinger-Ricci harmonic form.