Cylindrical generalized Ricci solitons in three dimensions

Abstract

We construct an explicit two-parameter family of complete, non-compact, three-dimensional, smooth steady gradient generalized Ricci solitons with $\mathrm{SO}(2)\times \mathbb{R}$ symmetry, providing a cylindrical counterpart to the spherically symmetric solitons recently found by Podestà and Raffero. The family is parametrized by a flux constant $k>0$ and a conserved quantity $\mathcal{C}\ge 0$. For $\mathcal{C}=0$, the asymptotic geometry exhibits power-law decay; for $\mathcal{C}>0$, the metric converges exponentially fast to a flat cylinder of finite radius.

20 pages. This work is part of the author's PhD thesis