Steady Ricci solitons with horizontally ε-pinched Ricci curvature

In this paper,we prove that any κ-noncollapsed gradient steady Ricci soliton with nonnegative curvature operator and horizontally κ-pinched Ricci curvature must be rotationally symmetric.As an application,we show that any κ-noncollapsed gradient steady Ricci soliton(Mn,g,f) with nonnegative curvature operator must be rotationally symmetric if it admits a unique equilibrium point and its scalar curvature R(x) satisfies lim_(ρ(x)→∞) R(x)f(x)=C_0 sup_(x∈M) R(x) with C_0n-2/2.