Ricci solitons in three-dimensional paracontact geometry (Q893231)

A Ricci soliton is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) equipped with a vector field \(X\) satisfying \[ {\mathcal L}_X \, g + \rho = \lambda \, g \] where \(\rho\) is the Ricci tensor and \(\lambda\) a real number. A Ricci soliton is said to be shrinking, steady or expanding, according to whether \(\lambda > 0, \lambda = 0\) or \(\lambda < 0\), respectively. Obviously, an interesting case is when \(X\) is a Reeb vector field for a contact manifold. However, in this case the contact manifold is Einstein. A more interesting situation arises when we are dealing with paracontact metric manifolds. The authors investigate the three-dimensional case and provide many examples.