“…Second, we want to understand to what extent the aforementioned families of quasi-Einstein metrics are "typical." To that end, we will prove a precompactness theorem for the space of compact quasi-Einstein smooth metric measure spaces, generalizing similar results for Einstein metrics [2,6,22] and for gradient Ricci solitons [42,44,45]. An important feature of our result is that it is a precompactness theorem for smooth metric measure spaces for which the dimensional parameter is allowed to vary within (1, ∞]; in particular, our result can be interpreted as stating that, after taking a subsequence if necessary, noncollapsing sequences of compact quasi-Einstein metrics with m → ∞ converge to shrinking gradient Ricci solitons.…”