Bach-flat gradient steady Ricci solitons

DOI10.1007/S00526-012-0575-3MaRDI QIDQ2636863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Huai-Dong Cao, Giovanni Catino, Qiang Chen, Carlo Mantegazza, Lorenzo Mazzieri

Publication date 18 February 2014

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4591

zbMATH Keywords

Bryant solitonconformally flatwarped product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: In this paper we prove that any $n$-dimensional ($nge4$) complete Bach-flat gradient steady Ricci soliton with positive Ricci curvature is isometric to the Bryant soliton. We also show that a three-dimensional gradient steady Ricci soliton with divergence-free Bach tensor is either flat or isometric to the Bryant soliton. In particular, these results improve the corresponding classification theorems for complete locally conformally flat gradient steady Ricci solitons in [6] and [9].

Review text

Generalizing the 2-dimensional cigar metric on \(\mathbb{R}^2\), there is a unique (up to scaling) rotationally symmetric gradient Ricci soliton on \(\mathbb{R}^n\), called the Bryant soliton (see [\textit{B. Chow} et al., The Ricci flow: techniques and applications. Part I: Geometric aspects. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2007; Zbl 1157.53034)]). In the paper under review, it is shown that in any dimension \(n\geq 4\) any complete Bach-flat gradient steady Ricci soliton with positive Ricci curvature is isometric to the Bryant soliton. Moreover, it is shown that in dimension \(n=3\) a gradient steady Ricci soliton with divergence-free Bach tensor is either flat or isometric to the Bryant soliton. This improves previous results by the authors on complete locally conformally flat gradient steady Ricci solitons [\textit{H.-D. Cao} and \textit{Q. Chen}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 364, No. 5, 2377--2391 (2012; Zbl 1245.53038); \textit{G. Catino} and \textit{C. Mantegazza}, Ann. Inst. Fourier 61, No. 4, 1407--1435 (2011; Zbl 1255.53034)].

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