Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

Gradient Einstein solitons

Lorenzo Mazzieri (Università degli Studi di Trento)

created by magnani on 18 Jan 2012

25 jan 2012 -- 17:00   [open in google calendar]

Sala Seminari, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa

Abstract.

Einstein solitons are self-similar solutions to the geometric flow

dgdt = - 2 Ric + R g ,

where Ric and R are respectively the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature of the metric g. A gradient Einstein soliton corresponds to a Riemannian manifold (M,g) such that there exists a smooth function f satisfying

Ric - (R2) g + Hess(f) = c g,

for some real number c. We will prove that if grad(f) is not parallel (in which case the soliton is trivial), then there exists a real function h such that f(p) = h(r(p)), where r is the signed distance to a fixed regular level set of f. When this happens, the soliton is said to be rectifiable. In the second part of the seminar we will present some of the geometric consequences of the rectifiability.