Infinitesimal rigidity of collapsed gradient steady Ricci solitons in dimension three

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Main Authors: Cao, Huai-Dong, He, Chenxu
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author Cao, Huai-Dong
He, Chenxu
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He, Chenxu
contents The only known example of collapsed three-dimensional complete gradient steady Ricci solitons so far is the 3D cigar soliton $N^2\times \mathbb{R}$, the product of Hamilton's cigar soliton $N^2$ and the real line $\mathbb{R}$ 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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spellingShingle Infinitesimal rigidity of collapsed gradient steady Ricci solitons in dimension three
Cao, Huai-Dong
He, Chenxu
Differential Geometry
53C24, 53C10, 53C21, 53C25, 53C44
The only known example of collapsed three-dimensional complete gradient steady Ricci solitons so far is the 3D cigar soliton $N^2\times \mathbb{R}$, the product of Hamilton's cigar soliton $N^2$ and the real line $\mathbb{R}$ 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.
title Infinitesimal rigidity of collapsed gradient steady Ricci solitons in dimension three
topic Differential Geometry
53C24, 53C10, 53C21, 53C25, 53C44
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2714