Munteanu–Sung–Wang curvature-decay dichotomy for steady gradient Ricci solitons

Let (M,g,f)(M,g,f) be a complete non Ricci flat steady gradient Ricci soliton with Rm0|\operatorname{Rm}|\to 0 as xx\to\infty, where rr denotes the distance function on MM. Munteanu–Sung–Wang's curvature-decay conjecture. There is a positive constant CC such that, outside a compact set of MM, either

C1r1RmCr1;C^{-1}r^{-1}\leq |\operatorname{Rm}|\leq Cr^{-1};

or

C1erRmCer.C^{-1}e^{-r}\leq |\operatorname{Rm}|\leq Ce^{-r}.

The conjecture proposes that non-Ricci-flat steady gradient Ricci solitons with curvature tending to zero have precisely either linear or exponential curvature decay. The paper presents it as a conjecture raised by Munteanu, Sung, and Wang; the supplied material gives no evidence that it has been resolved.

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Pak-Yeung Chan and Bo Zhu, “On a dichotomy of the curvature decay of steady Ricci soliton”, arXiv:2108.05477 (2021).

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