Event Series
Event Type
Seminar
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 4:30 PM
Erin Griffin (Seattle Pacific University)

We will discuss a new program of studying solitons using a geometric flow for a general tensor $q$. We begin by establishing a number of results for solitons to the geometric flow for a general tensor, $q$, examining both the compact and non-compact cases. From there, we will apply these results to the ambient obstruction flow, the Bach flow ($n\geq 5$), and the Cotton flow to see the utility of this approach. We juxtapose this approach with a more hands-on approach used to show that any homogeneous gradient Bach soliton ($n=4$) that is steady must be Bach flat; that the only homogeneous, non-Bach-flat, shrinking gradient solitons are product metrics on $\mathbb{R}^2 \times S^2$  and $\mathbb{R}^2 \times H^2$; and there is a homogeneous, non-Bach-flat, expanding gradient Bach soliton.