The object of the present paper is to study invariant submanifolds of a (k, μ)-contact manifold and to find the necessary and sufficient conditions for an invariant submanifold of a (k, μ)-contact manifold to be totally geodesic.
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Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 62, No. 11, pp. 1555–1560, November, 2010.
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De, A. A note on invariant submanifolds of (k, μ)-contact manifolds. Ukr Math J 62, 1803–1809 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-011-0469-0
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