We show that closed shrinking gradient Ricci solitons with positive Ricci curvature and sufficiently pinched Weyl tensor are Einstein. When Weyl tensor vanishes, this has been proved before but our proof here is much simpler.
Zhuhong ZHANG
,
Chih-Wei CHEN
. ON SHRINKING GRADIENT RICCI SOLITONS WITH POSITIVE RICCI CURVATURE AND SMALL WEYL TENSOR[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2019
, 39(5)
: 1235
-1239
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DOI: 10.1007/s10473-019-0503-0
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