Abstract
Purpose
In 1979, P. Wintgen obtained a basic relationship between the extrinsic normal curvature the intrinsic Gauss curvature, and squared mean curvature of any surface in a Euclidean 4-space with the equality holding if and only if the curvature ellipse is a circle. In 1999, P. J. De Smet, F. Dillen, L. Verstraelen and L. Vrancken gave a conjecture of Wintgen inequality, named as the DDVV-conjecture, for general Riemannian submanifolds in real space forms. Later on, this conjecture was proven to be true by Z. Lu and by Ge and Z. Tang independently. Since then, the study of Wintgen’s inequalities and Wintgen ideal submanifolds has attracted many researchers, and a lot of interesting results have been found during the last 15 years. The main purpose of this paper is to extend this conjecture of Wintgen inequality for bi-slant submanifold in conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a quarter symmetric metric connection.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors used standard technique for obtaining generalized Wintgen inequality for bi-slant submanifold in conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a quarter symmetric metric connection.
Findings
The authors establish the generalized Wintgen inequality for bi-slant submanifold in conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a quarter symmetric metric connection, and also find conditions under which the equality holds. Some particular cases are also stated.
Originality/value
The research may be a challenge for new developments focused on new relationships in terms of various invariants, for different types of submanifolds in that ambient space with several connections.
Keywords
Citation
Aslam, M., Siddiqi, M.D. and Siddiqui, A.N. (2025), "Generalized Wintgen inequality for BI-SLANT submanifolds in conformal Sasakian space form with quarter-symmetric connection", Arab Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJMS-03-2021-0057
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1. Introduction
In 1980, I. Vaisman [1] introduced the concept of conformal changes (or deformation) of almost contact metric structures as follows: Let
The Wintgen inequality is a sharp geometric inequality for surfaces in four-dimensional Euclidean space involving Gauss curvature (intrinsic invariants), normal curvature and square mean curvature (extrinsic invariants). P. Wintgen [2] proved that the Gauss curvature K, the normal curvature K⊥ and the squared mean curvature
In 1999, De Smet, Dillen, Verstraelen and Vrancken [5] conjectured the generalized Wintgen inequality for submanifolds in real space form. The conjecture is known as DDVV conjecture. It had been proved by Lu [6] and by Ge and Tang [7] independently. In 2014, Ion Mihai [8] established such inequality for Lagrangian submanifold in complex space form. They provided some applications and also stated such an inequality for slant submanifolds in complex space forms. However, the year 2014 is not the stopping point in investigating Wintgen inequality and some additional steps have been taken in the development of the theory. In fact, many remarkable articles were published in the recent years and several inequalities of this type have been obtained for other classes of submanifolds in several ambient spaces for example, for statistical submanifolds in statistical manifolds of constant curvature [9]; for Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian space forms [10]; for submanifolds in statistical warped product manifolds [11]; for quaternionic CR-submanifolds in quaternionic space forms [12]; for submanifolds in generalized (κ, μ)-space forms [13]; for totally real submanifolds in LCS-manifolds [14] and so on. For more details, see [15].
In the present article, we obtain the generalized Wintgen inequalities for conformal Sasakian space forms. The equality case of the main inequality is investigated. Lastly, we discuss such inequality for various slant cases as an application of the obtained inequality.
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Sasakian manifold
An odd-dimensional Riemannian manifold
A Sasakian manifold is a normal contact metric manifold. In fact, an almost contact metric manifold is Sasakian manifold if and only if we have
A plane section π in
2.2. Conformal Sasakian manifold
A (2n + 1)-dimensional Riemannian manifold
Let
The (2n + 1)-dimensional conformal Sasakian manifold with constant sectional curvature c, denoted by
2.3. Quarter-symmetric metric connection
Let
The special cases of (2.5) can be obtained as follows:
when Λ1 = Λ2 = 1, then the above connection reduces to semi-symmetric metric connection and
when Λ1 = 1 and Λ2 = 0, then the above connection reduces to semi-symmetric non-metric connection.
For any
On using (2.5), the curvature tensor (2.6) takes the form [17] as follows:
The curvature tensor of conformal Saasakian space form
Let
Here, h′ is the second fundamental form of
For any
The notion of bi-slant submanifolds was introduced by A. Carriazo et al. as a natural generalization of CR, slant, semi-slant and hemi-slant submanifolds (see [18–20]). Recently, S. Uddin and B.-Y. Chen studied bi-slant and pointwise bi-slant submanifolds for their warped products in [21, 22]. A submanifold
and and
where
Let
from which we have [23] as follows:
Thus, we have
In fact, semi-slant, pseudo-slant, CR and slant submanifolds can be obtained from bi-slant submanifolds in particular. We can see the cases in the following Table 1
The special case of slant submanifold are invariant and anti-invariant if θ = 0 and
3. Main inequalities
In [10], Mihai discussed the generalized Wintgen inequality for Legendrian submanifolds in Sasakian space forms. He also stated such an inequality for contact slant submanifolds in Sasakian space forms. Thus, in this section, we obtain such an inequality in terms of the invariant
The mean curvature
Conveniently, let us put
We denote by K and R⊥, the sectional curvature function and the normal curvature tensor on
In term of the components of the second fundamental form, we can express the scalar normal curvature
Let
Moreover, the equality case holds in the above inequality at a point
Let {e1, …, em} and {em+1, …, e2n+1} be orthonormal tangent frame and orthonormal normal frame on
By taking summation 1 ≤ i < j ≤ m of (3.9) and using (2.7), we have
Using (2.10) and (3.1), we obtain
On the other hand, we have
Further, from [6], we have
Now, combining (3.3), (3.12) and (3.14), we have
Taking into account (3.2), (3.11) and (3.14), we obtain the required inequality.
Finally, by investigating the equality case of (3.5), the equality sign holds in (3.5) at a point
An immediate consequence of Theorem 3.1 yields the following:
Let
Let
For the semi-symmetric metric connection Λ1 = Λ2 = 1, we have
Let
Let
For the semi-symmetric non-metric connection Λ1 = 1 and Λ2 = 0, we have
Let
Let
4. Some examples of conformal Sasakian manifolds
In this segment, we provide some examples of a conformal Sasakian manifolds which is not Sasakian.
Let us consider a three-dimensional manifold
Let η be the an 1-form defined by
We define the (1, 1) tensor field φ as
The linear property of g and φ yield that
Similarly,
The Riemannian connection
By Koszul’s formula, we obtain the following
Using contact transformation
In view of above expressions, we turn up the following:
Note that the sectional curvature of manifold
Moreover, the non-vanishing components of Ricci curvature tensor, and scalar curvature are given by
Let us consider a three-dimensional manifold
Let η be the an 1-form defined by
We define the (1, 1) tensor field φ by
The linear property of g and φ yield
Similarly,
The Riemannian connection
By Koszul’s formula, we obtain the following:
Adopting contact transformation
Then,
In [25, it was shown that the warped product
Let us consider a 11-dimensional manifold
We consider an one-form
We define the (1, 1) tensor field
Thus, we have
The linear property of g and
Now, we define a submanifold
It is easy to check that tangent bundle
Using the almost contact structure φ, we obtain
If we consider the distributions as follows:
Then, we have
Different types of submanifolds
S N | θ1 | θ2 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | Bi-slant | Slant distribution | Slant distribution | Slant angle | Slant angle |
(2) | Semi-slant | Invariant distribution | Slant distribution | 0 | Slant angle |
(3) | Pseudo-slant | Slant distribution | Anti-invariant distribution | Slant angle | |
(4) | Contact CR | Invariant distribution | Anti-invariant distribution | 0 | |
(5) | Slant | Either | Either θ1 = θ2 = θ or θ1 = θ2 ≠ θ |
Inequalities for different submanifolds in a conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a quarter-symmetric connection
SN | Inequality | |
---|---|---|
(1) | Semi-slant | |
(2) | Pseudo-slant | |
(3) | Contact CR | |
(4) | Slant | |
(5) | Invariant | |
(6) | Anti-nvariant |
Inequalities for different submanifolds in a conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a semi-symmetric metric connection
SN | Inequality | |
---|---|---|
(1) | Semi-slant | |
(2) | Pseudo-slant | |
(3) | Contact CR | |
(4) | Slant | |
(5) | Invariant | |
(6) | Anti-invariant |
Inequalities for different submanifolds in a conformal Sasakian space form endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection
SN | Inequality | |
---|---|---|
(1) | Semi-slant | |
(2) | Pseudo-slant | |
(3) | Contact CR | |
(4) | Slant | |
(5) | Invariant | |
(6) | Anti-invariant |
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the referees for the valuable suggestions and comments toward the improvement of the paper.