The space of solvsolitons in low dimensions (Q717139)

A complete Riemannian metric on a smooth manifold \(M\) is called a \textit{Ricci soliton} if the Ricci tensor satisfies \(\mathrm{Ric}(g)=c\cdot g + L_X g\) for some constant \(c\in\mathbb R\) and some complete vector field \(X\). Such metrics appear in the study of the Ricci flow as the fixed points of the flow, up to isometry and scaling. In the homogeneous case, the easiest example is the product of an Einstein homogeneous manifold with an Euclidean space. Besides those, the only other examples known are left-invariant metrics on simply-connected solvable Lie groups. Such metrics are called \textit{solvsolitons} (in the nilpotent case, they are called \textit{nilsolitons}) and have been characterized by \textit{J. Lauret} as extensions of nilsolitons by an abelian subalgebra of symmetric derivations of its metric Lie algebra [J. Reine Angew. Math. 650, 1--21 (2011; Zbl 1210.53051)]. The purpose of the present paper is to approach their classification in low dimensions. More concretely, the moduli space of solvsolitons of dimension at most~\(6\), up to isomorphism and scaling, is described: the subspace of solvsolitons associated to a given nilsoliton is described as the quotient of a Grassmann manifold by a finite group.