Gradient Ricci soliton

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This article defines a property that makes sense for a Riemannian metric over a differential manifold

Definition

Given data

A differential manifold M and a Riemannian metric g on M.

Definition part

A gradient Ricci soliton is a Ricci soliton for which the corresponding complete vector field is the gradient of a potential function.