Rigidity of shrinking gradient ricci soliton with constant scalar curvature

Abstract

Let $(M^n, g, f)$ be a complete shrinking gradient Ricci soliton with constant scalar curvature. Under the assumptions that (i) $Ric \geq \frac{\nabla_{\nabla f}Ric}{f}$ on $M\setminus D$, where $D$ is a compact set over $M$; (ii) $(M^n, g, f)$ smoothly converges to $\mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^{n-2}$, we conclude that $(M^n, g, f)$ is isometric to $\mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^{n-2}$. Notably, condition \textup{(i)} is weaker than the radial flatness condition in \cite{Petersen-Wylie2}.