Remark on a lower diameter bound for compact shrinking Ricci solitons

In this paper, inspired by Fernández-López and García-Río 11], we shall give a new lower diameter bound for compact non-trivial shrinking Ricci solitons depending on the range of the potential function, as well as on the range of the scalar curvature. Moreover, by using a universal lower diameter bound for compact non-trivial shrinking Ricci solitons by Chu and Hu 7] and by Futaki, Li, and Li 13], we shall provide a new sufficient condition for four-dimensional compact non-trivial shrinking Ricci solitons to satisfy the Hitchin–Thorpe inequality. Furthermore, we shall give a new lower diameter bound for compact self–shrinkers of the mean curvature flow depending on the norm of the mean curvature. We shall also prove a new gap theorem for compact self–shrinkers by showing a necessary and sufficient condition to have constant norm of the mean curvature.