Structure at infinity for shrinking Ricci solitons

DOI10.24033/ASENS.2400MaRDI QIDQ5206177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 December 2019

Published in Annales Scientifiques de l?tcole Normale Sup�rieure (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01861

asymptotic structure Ricci flow Ricci solitons

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Ricci flows (53E20)

Abstract: The paper mainly concerns the structure at infinity for complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. It is shown that for such a soliton with bounded curvature, if the round cylinder

m a t h b b R i m e s m a t h b b S^{n - 1} / G a m m a

occurs as a limit for a sequence of points going to infinity along an end, then the end is asymptotic to the same round cylinder at infinity. The result is then applied to obtain structural results at infinity for four dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. It is previously known that such solitons with scalar curvature approaching zero at infinity must be smoothly asymptotic to a cone. For the case that the scalar curvature is bounded from below by a positive constant, we conclude that along each end the soliton is asymptotic to a quotient of

m a t h b b R i m e s m a t h b b S^{3}

or converges to a quotient of

m a t h b b R^{2} i m e s m a t h b b S^{2}

along each integral curve of the gradient vector field of the potential function.

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