Infinitesimal rigidity of collapsed gradient steady Ricci solitons in dimension three

DOI10.4310/CAG.2018.V26.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ724440zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Huai-Dong Cao, Chenxu He

Publication date 26 July 2018

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2714

zbMATH Keywords

collapsedKilling vector fieldsRicci solitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Rigidity results (53C24) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: The only known example of collapsed three-dimensional complete gradient steady Ricci solitons so far is the 3D cigar soliton $N^{2}imesmathbbR$, the product of Hamilton's cigar soliton $N^2$ and the real line $mathbbR$ with the product metric. R. Hamilton has conjectured that there should exist a family of collapsed positively curved three-dimensional complete gradient steady solitons, with $mathsf{S}^1$-symmetry, connecting the 3D cigar soliton. In this paper, we make the first initial progress and prove that the infinitesimal deformation at the 3D cigar soliton is non-essential. In Appendix A, we show that the 3D cigar soliton is the unique complete nonflat gradient steady Ricci soliton in dimension three that admits two commuting Killing vector fields.

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