Compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with positive curvature operator

DOI10.1007/BF02922090MaRDI QIDQ2459942zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Xiaodong Cao

Publication date 9 November 2007

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601599

zbMATH Keywords

curvature operatorRicci flowRicci soliton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the following conjecture of Hamilton: Any compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator must be Einstein. We first derive several identities. Then we show that the conjecture is true under an additional condition. Furthermore, such a soliton must be of constant curvature.

Review text

The author in the first place derives a number of useful identities on a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton, that are then used to show that if a compact gradient shrinking soliton admits a Riemannian metric with positive curvature operator and satisfies a certain inequality, then it must be Einstein and, furthermore, must be of constant curvature.

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