Ricci soliton homogeneous nilmanifolds
Ricci soliton homogeneous nilmanifolds
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DOI:
10.1007/pl00004456
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发表时间:
2001-04
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1.4
通讯作者:
J. Lauret
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作者:
J. Lauret
We study a notion weakening the Einstein condition on a left invariant Riemannian metricgon a nilpotent Lie groupN. We consider those metrics satisfying Ricfor someand some derivationDof the Lie algebraofN, where Ricdenotes the Ricci operator of. This condition is equivalent to the metricgto be a Ricci soliton. We prove that a Ricci soliton left invariant metric onNis unique up to isometry and scaling. The following characterization is also given: (N,g) is a Ricci soliton if and only if (N,g) admits a metric standard solvable extension whose corresponding standard solvmanifoldis Einstein. This gives several families of new examples of Ricci solitons. By a variational approach, we furthermore show that the Ricci soliton homogeneous nilmanifolds (N,g) are precisely the critical points of a natural functional defined on a vector space which contains all the homogeneous nilmanifolds of a given dimension as a real algebraic set.