%0 Journal Article
%T A lower bound for the scalar curvature of noncompact nonflat Ricci shrinkers
%A Bennett Chow
%A Peng Lu
%A Bo Yang
%J Mathematics
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%X We show that recent work of Ni and Wilking yields the result that a noncompact nonflat Ricci shrinker has at most quadratic scalar curvature decay. The examples of noncompact K\"{a}hler--Ricci shrinkers by Feldman, Ilmanen, and Knopf exhibit that this result is sharp.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0548v1