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Hamilton's identity and rigidity of complete gradient solitons

Antonio W. Cunha·Antonio N. Silva Jr·William Wylie
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In this work, we study gradient solitons to general geometric flows. Our approach is to understand what assumptions need to be made about a flow in order to extend results about Ricci solitons. In this direction, we identify an identity, first exploited in the pioneering work of Richard Hamilton in the case of Ricci solitons, which we call Hamilton's identity. We show that a version of this identity for an arbitrary geometric flow allows one to recover results about rigidity, the growth of the potential function, volume growth and the Omori-Yau maximum principle that have been proven for gradient Ricci solitons.

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Antonio W. Cunha, Antonio N. Silva Jr, William Wylie. 2025-07-16. Hamilton's identity and rigidity of complete gradient solitons. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12381

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