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A Note on Ricci Solitons
oleh: Sharief Deshmukh, Hana Alsodais
Format: | Article |
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Diterbitkan: | MDPI AG 2020-02-01 |
Deskripsi
In this paper, we characterize trivial Ricci solitons. We observe the important role of the energy function <i>f</i> of a Ricci soliton (half the squared length of the potential vector field) in the charectrization of trivial Ricci solitons. We find three characterizations of connected trivial Ricci solitons by imposing different restrictions on the energy function. We also use Hessian of the potential function to characterize compact trivial Ricci solitons. Finally, we show that a solution of a Poisson equation is the energy function <i>f</i> of a compact Ricci soliton if and only if the Ricci soliton is trivial.