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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2019; 56(6): 1475-1488

Online first article July 26, 2019      Printed November 1, 2019

https://doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.j180747

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Rigidity characterization of compact Ricci solitons

Fengjiang Li, Jian Zhou

East China Normal University; Yunnan Normal University

Abstract

In this paper, we firstly define the Ricci mean value along the gradient vector field of the Ricci potential function and show that it is non-negative on a compact Ricci soliton. Furthermore a Ricci soliton is Einstein if and only if its Ricci mean value is vanishing. Finally, we obtain a compact Ricci soliton $(M^{n},g) (n \geq 3)$ is Einstein if its Weyl curvature tensor and the Kulkarni-Nomizu product of Ricci curvature are orthogonal.

Keywords: Ricci soliton, Einstein manifold, Ricci mean value, Weyl conformal curvatue tensor

MSC numbers: Primary 53C25; Secondary 53C44

Supported by: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (No.11531012 and 61663049) and Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan (No.2018FB002).