Abstract
We introduce, in the Riemannian setting, the notion of conformal Ricci soliton, which includes as particular cases Einstein manifolds, conformal Einstein manifolds and (generic and gradient) Ricci solitons. We provide necessary integrability conditions for the existence of these structures that also recover, in the corresponding contexts, those already known in the literature for conformally Einstein manifolds and for gradient Ricci solitons. A crucial tool in our analysis is the construction of (0, 3)-tensors related to the geometric structures, that in the special case of gradient Ricci solitons become the celebrated tensor D recently introduced by Cao and Chen. We derive commutation rules for covariant derivatives (of functions and tensors) and of transformation laws of some geometric objects under a conformal change of the underlying metric.
Communicated by: G. Gentili
Funding
The first author was supported by the GNAMPA projects “Equazioni di evoluzione geometriche e strutture di tipo Einstein” and “Analisi Globale, PDE’s e Strutture Solitoniche”. The secound and the third author were supported by the GNAMPA projects “Analisi globale ed operatori degeneri” and “Analisi Globale,
PDE’s e Strutture Solitoniche”.
The first three authors are members of the Gruppo Nazionale per l’Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA) of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM).
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