Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons and Modified Sectional Curvature

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Main Authors: Cao, Xiaodong, Ribeiro Jr, Ernani, Wondo, Hosea
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author Cao, Xiaodong
Ribeiro Jr, Ernani
Wondo, Hosea
author_facet Cao, Xiaodong
Ribeiro Jr, Ernani
Wondo, Hosea
contents We investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with positive modified sectional curvature. Our first main result shows that if the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and the scalar curvature satisfy a certain sharp pinching condition (closely related, in a precise sense, to that of Kähler metric), then the soliton is necessarily locally Kähler. We further obtain a characterization theorem and a weighted integral gap result for compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with bounded modified sectional curvature. In addition, we establish a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for compact four-dimensional Ricci solitons, providing new topological constraints on such manifolds.
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spellingShingle Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons and Modified Sectional Curvature
Cao, Xiaodong
Ribeiro Jr, Ernani
Wondo, Hosea
Differential Geometry
We investigate four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with positive modified sectional curvature. Our first main result shows that if the norm of the self-dual Weyl tensor and the scalar curvature satisfy a certain sharp pinching condition (closely related, in a precise sense, to that of Kähler metric), then the soliton is necessarily locally Kähler. We further obtain a characterization theorem and a weighted integral gap result for compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with bounded modified sectional curvature. In addition, we establish a Hitchin-Thorpe type inequality for compact four-dimensional Ricci solitons, providing new topological constraints on such manifolds.
title Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons and Modified Sectional Curvature
topic Differential Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20669