Recently I am reading the book The Ricci Flow: techniques and applications: Part I: geometric aspects by Bennett Chow et al.. Here I have encountered a result (Proposition 1.13) due to Hamilton which states that "Any expanding or steady Ricci soliton $(g,X)$ on a closed manifold $M^n$ is Einstein. Any shrinking Ricci solution on a closed $n$-manifold has positive scalar curvature." In the proof, the general Ricci soliton equation is given by $$\Delta R + 2|\mathrm{Rc}|^2=\mathcal{L}_X(R)-\epsilon R,$$ which can be written as $$\Delta R + 2|\mathrm{Rc}|^2-\langle\nabla R,X\rangle+\epsilon R=0.$$ The proof says that the last equation can be rewritten as $$\Delta\left(R+\frac {n\epsilon} {2}\right)+2\,\left|\mathrm{Rc}+\frac {\epsilon} {2}g\right|^2-\left\langle\nabla\left(R+\frac {n\epsilon} {2}\right),X\right\rangle-\epsilon\left(R+\frac {n\epsilon} {2}\right)=0.$$ I can not understand the last equation. Please some one help me to understand this.
2026-03-25 12:48:30.1774442910
understanding a proof on ricci soliton
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