A rigidity result for axisymmetric toric Ricci solitons

Abstract

We examine a non-axisymmetric perturbation of a family of axisymmetric toric Einstein manifolds and Ricci solitons studied in Firester-Tsiamis (2024). We establish a rigidity result stating that these axisymmetric Ricci solitons do not admit constant-angle non-axisymmetric perturbations except for conformally flat cases. For these new cases, our result leads to an explicit description of the Einstein metrics and a classification of the Ricci solitons under a volume-collapsing ansatz.