Vanishing bach-like tensors on complete gradient shrinking ricci solitons

Abstract

The Bach tensor is classically defined in dimension 4, and work from J. Bergman \cite{bergman:2004} and others shows that $B=\frac{1}{2}U+\frac{1}{6}V$ where $U$ and $V$ are more basic 2-tensors, which are symmetric, divergence-free, algebraically independent, and quadratic in the Riemann tensor. In this paper, we extend H.-D. Cao and Q. Chen's results \cite{caochen:2013} for Bach-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons to solitons with $\mathfrak{B}=\alpha U+\beta V=0$.

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