Rigidity of Complete Gradient Shrinkers with Pointwise Pinching Riemannian Curvature

Let M n , g , f be a complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton of dimension n ≥ 3 . In this paper, we study the rigidity of M n , g , f with pointwise pinching curvature and obtain some rigidity results. In particular, we prove that every n -dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci soliton M n , g , f is isometric to ℝ n or a finite quotient of S n under some pointwise pinching curvature condition. The arguments mainly rely on algebraic curvature estimates and several analysis tools on M n , g , f , such as the property of f -parabolic and a Liouville type theorem.

Four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons

In this article, we study four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. We prove that a four-dimensional complete gradient shrinking Ricci soliton satisfying a pointwise condition involving either the self-dual or anti-self-dual part of the Weyl tensor is either Einstein, or a finite quotient of either the Gaussian shrinking soliton ℝ 4 {\mathbb{R}^{4}} , or 𝕊 3 × ℝ {\mathbb{S}^{3}\times\mathbb{R}} , or 𝕊 2 × ℝ 2 . {\mathbb{S}^{2}\times\mathbb{R}^{2}.} In addition, we provide some curvature estimates for four-dimensional complete gradient Ricci solitons assuming that its scalar curvature is suitable bounded by the potential function.

Local curvature estimates for the Laplacian flow

In this paper we give local curvature estimates for the Laplacian flow on closed $$G_{2}$$ G 2 -structures under the condition that the Ricci curvature is bounded along the flow. The main ingredient consists of the idea of Kotschwar et al. (J Funct Anal 271(9):2604–2630, 2016) who gave local curvature estimates for the Ricci flow on complete manifolds and then provided a new elementary proof of Sesum’s result (Sesum in Am J Math 127(6):1315–1324, 2005), and the particular structure of the Laplacian flow on closed $$G_{2}$$ G 2 -structures. As an immediate consequence, this estimates give a new proof of Lotay and Wei’s (Geom Funct Anal 27(1):165–233, 2017) result which is an analogue of Sesum’s theorem. The second result is about an interesting evolution equation for the scalar curvature of the Laplacian flow of closed $$G_{2}$$ G 2 -structures. Roughly speaking, we can prove that the time derivative of the scalar curvature $$R_{g(t)}$$ R g ( t ) is equal to the Laplacian of $$R_{g(t)}$$ R g ( t ) , plus an extra term which can be written as the difference of two nonnegative quantities.

Heinz-type mean curvature estimates in Lorentz-Minkowski space

We provide a unified description of Heinz-type mean curvature estimates under an assumption on the gradient bound for space-like graphs and time-like graphs in the Lorentz-Minkowski space. As a corollary, we give a unified vanishing theorem of mean curvature for these entire graphs of constant mean curvature.

Sharp one-sided curvature estimates for fully nonlinear curvature flows and applications to ancient solutions

We prove several sharp one-sided pinching estimates for immersed and embedded hypersurfaces evolving by various fully nonlinear, one-homogeneous curvature flows by the method of Stampacchia iteration. These include sharp estimates for the largest principal curvature and the inscribed curvature (“cylindrical estimates”) for flows by concave speeds and a sharp estimate for the exscribed curvature for flows by convex speeds. Making use of a recent idea of Huisken and Sinestrari, we then obtain corresponding estimates for ancient solutions. In particular, this leads to various characterisations of the shrinking sphere amongst ancient solutions of these flows.