A note on quasi-bi-slant submanifolds of Sasakian manifolds

The object of the present paper is to study the notion of quasi-bi-slant submanifolds of almost contact metric manifolds as a generalization of slant, semi-slant, hemi-slant, bi-slant, and quasi-hemi-slant submanifolds. We study and characterize quasi-bi-slant submanifolds of Sasakian manifolds and provide non-trivial examples to signify that the structure presented in this paper is valid. Furthermore, the integrability of distributions and geometry of foliations are researched. Moreover, we characterize quasi-bi-slant submanifolds with parallel canonical structures.

ON A CERTAIN TRANSFORMATION IN ALMOST CONTACT METRIC MANIFOLDS

In this work, we investigate a new deformations of almost contact metric manifolds. New relations between classes of 3-dimensional almost contact metric have been discovered. Several concrete examples are discussed.

Optimal inequalities for contact CR-submanifolds in almost contact metric manifolds

In [An optimal inequality for CR-warped products in complex space forms involving CR δ-invariant, Internat. J. Math. 23(3) (2012)], B.-Y. Chen introduced the CR δ-invariant for CR-submanifolds. Then, in [Two optimal inequalities for anti-holomorphic submanifolds and their applications, Taiwan. J. Math. 18 (2014), 199–217], F. R. Al-Solamy, B.-Y. Chen and S. Deshmukh proved two optimal inequalities for anti-holomorphic submanifolds in complex space forms involving the CR δ-invariant. In this paper, we obtain optimal inequalities for this invariant for contact CR-submanifolds in almost contact metric manifolds.

A Study of New Class of Almost Contact Metric Manifolds of Kenmotsu Type

In this paper, we characterized a new class of almost contact metric manifolds and established the equivalent conditions of the characterization identity in term of Kirichenko’s tensors. We demonstrated that the Kenmotsu manifold provides the mentioned class; i.e., the new class can be decomposed into a direct sum of the Kenmotsu and other classes. We proved that the manifold of dimension 3 coincided with the Kenmotsu manifold and provided an example of the new manifold of dimension 5, which is not the Kenmotsu manifold. Moreover, we established the Cartan’s structure equations, the components of Riemannian curvature tensor and the Ricci tensor of the class under consideration. Further,the conditions required for this to be an Einstein manifold have been determined.

Remarkable Classes of Almost 3-Contact Metric Manifolds

We introduce a new class of almost 3-contact metric manifolds, called 3-(0,δ)-Sasaki manifolds. We show fundamental geometric properties of these manifolds, analyzing analogies and differences with the known classes of 3-(α,δ)-Sasaki (α≠0) and 3-δ-cosymplectic manifolds.

∇N-EINSTEIN ALMOST CONTACT METRIC MANIFOLDS

On an almost contact metric manifold M, an N-connection ∇N defined by the pair (∇,N), where ∇ is the interior metric connection and N: TМ → TM is an endomorphism of the tangent bundle of the manifold M such that Nξ = 0, 􀁇 􀁇 N (D) ⊂ D , is considered. Special attention is paid to the case of a skew-symmetric N-connection ∇N, which means that the torsion of an N-connection considered as a trivalent covariant tensor is skew-symmetric. Such a connection is uniquely defined and corresponds to the endomorphism N = 2ψ, where the endomorphism ψ is defined by the equality ω( X ,Y ) = g (ψX ,Y ) and is called in this work the second structure endomorphism of an almost contact metric manifold. The notion of a ∇N-Einstein almost contact metric manifold is introduced. For the case N = 2ψ, conditions under which almost contact manifolds are ∇N-Einstein manifolds are found.