On complete gradient Schouten solitons

Abstract: In this paper, we prove an optimal inequality between the potential function of a complete Schouten soliton and the norm of its gradient. We also prove that these metrics have bounded scalar curvature of defined sign. As an application, we prove that the potential function of a Shrinking Schouten soliton grows linearly and provide optimal estimates for the growth of the volume of geodesic balls, without any further assumption.