Hamilton's conjecture on compact shrinking Ricci solitons with positive curvature operator

Let MM be a compact Riemannian manifold with a gradient shrinking Ricci soliton metric gg, so that for some function ff and τ>0\tau>0,

Rij+ijf=12τgij.R_{ij}+\nabla_i\nabla_j f=\frac{1}{2\tau}g_{ij}.

The metric has positive curvature operator if its curvature operator is positive definite. Hamilton's conjecture. A compact gradient shrinking Ricci soliton with positive curvature operator must be Einstein, meaning that its Ricci tensor is a constant multiple of the metric. The conjecture connects positivity of the curvature operator with rigidity of compact shrinking Ricci solitons. The source does not provide evidence of a resolution.

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Xiaodong Cao, “Compact Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons with Positive Curvature Operator”, arXiv:math/0601599 (2006).

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