Mini-Workshop: Einstein Metrics, Ricci Solitons and Ricci Flow under Symmetry Assumptions

  • Christoph Böhm

    Universität Münster, Germany
  • Jorge Lauret

    Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
  • McKenzie Wang

    McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Abstract

Symmetry reduction methods play an important role in the study of Einstein metrics, Ricci solitons and Ricci flow. The general aim of this mini workshop was to gather researchers who have expertise in the construction of geometric examples and to survey and discuss the singularity properties of homogeneous Ricci flows and the existence question for Ricci solitons, in light of the known rigidity results and general properties. Particular topics focused on were the Alekseevskii conjecture for noncompact homogeneous Einstein spaces, the homogeneous Ricci flow and shrinking solitons.

Cite this article

Christoph Böhm, Jorge Lauret, McKenzie Wang, Mini-Workshop: Einstein Metrics, Ricci Solitons and Ricci Flow under Symmetry Assumptions. Oberwolfach Rep. 11 (2014), no. 4, pp. 2529–2568

DOI 10.4171/OWR/2014/45