1. Introduction
In 1924, Friedmann and Schouten [1] introduced the idea of a semi-symmetric connection on a differentiable manifold. A linear connection
on a differentiable manifold M is said to be semi-symmetric connection if the torsion tensor
of the connection
satisfies
where
is a 1-form.
In 1932, Hayden [2] introduced the notion of a semi-symmetric metric connection on a Riemannian manifold
. A semi-symmetric connection
is said to be semi-symmetric metric connection if
Yano [3] studied some properties of a Riemannian manifold endowed with a semi-symmetric metric connection. Submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold with a semi-symmetric metric connection were studied by Nakao [4] .
After a long gap, the study of semi-symmetric connection
satisfying
(1)
was initiated by Prvanovic [5] with the name Pseudo-metric semi-symmetric connection, and was just followed by Smaranda and Andonie [6] .
A semi-symmetric connection
is said to be a semi-symmetric non-metric connection if it satisfies the condition Equation (1).
In 1992, Agashe and Chafle [7] introduced a semi-symmetric non-metric connection
on a Riemannian manifold
which is given by
where
is Riemannian connection on M. They give the relation between the curvature tensor of the manifold with respect to the semi-symmetric non-metric connection and the Riemannian connection. They also proved that the projective curvature tensors of the manifold with respect to these connections are equal to each other.
In 2000, Sengupta, De, and Binh [8] gave another type of semi-symmetric non-metric connection. Özgür [9] studied properties of submanifolds of a Reiemannian manifold with the semi-symmetric non-metric connection.
On the other hand, one of the basic problem in submanifold theory is to find the simple relationship between the intrinsic and extrinsic invariants of a submanifold. Chen [10] [11] [12] , established inequalities in this respect, called Chen inequalities. And many geometers studied similar problems for different submanifolds in various ambient space, see [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] .
Motivated by [7] [21] and [22] , we have studied Chen’s inequalities for submanifolds in
-contact space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give a brief introduction about semi-symmetric non-metric connection,
-contact space, Chen invarants. In Section 3, for submanifolds in
-contact space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection we establish the Chen first inequality and Chen Ricci inequalities by using algebraic lemmas.
2. Preliminaries
Let
be an
-dimensional Riemannian manifold and
is a linear connection on
. If the torsion tensor
for any vector fields
and
on
satisfies
for a 1-form
, then the connection
is called a semi-symmetric connection.
Let g be a Riemannian metric on
. If
, then
is called a semi-symmetric metric connection on
. If
, then
is called a semi-symmetric non-metric connection on
.
Following [7] , a semi-symmetric symmetric non-metric connection
on
is given by
for any
, where
denotes the Levi-civita connection with respect to the Riemannian metric g and
is a 1-form. Denote by
, i.e., the dual vector field U is defined by
, for any vector field
on
.
Let
be an n-dimensional submanifold of
with the semi-symmetric connection
and the Levi-Civita connection
. On
we consider the induced semi-symmetric connection denoted by
and the induced Levi-Civita connection denoted by
. The Gauss formula with respect to
and
can be written as
where
is the second fundamental form of
and
is a
-tensor on
. According to [18] , we know
.
Let
and
denote the curvature tensor with respect to
and
respectively. We also denote the curvature tensor
and
associated with
and
repectively. From [7] .
(2)
for all
, where S is a
-tensor field defined by
Denote by
the trace of S.
Decomposing the vector field U on M uniquely into its tangent and normal components
and
, respectively, we have
. For any vector field
on
, the gauss equation with respect to the semi-symmetric non-metric connection is (see [18] )
(3)
In
we can choose a local orthonormal frame
such that
are tangent to
. Setting
, then the squared lenght of
is given by
The mean curvature vector of
associated to
is
. The mean curvature vector of
associated to
is defined by
.
Let
be a 2-plane section for any
and
the sectional curvature of
associated to the semi-symmetric non-metric connection
. The scalar curvature
associated to the semi-symmetric non-metric connection
at p is defined by
(4)
Let
be a k-plane section of
and
any orthonormal basis of
. The scalar curvature
of
associated to the semi-symmetric connection
is given by
(5)
We denote by
. In [12] Chen introduced the first Chen invariant
, which is certainly an intrinsic character of
.
Suppose L is a k-plane section of
and X is a unit vector in L, we choose an orthonormal basis
of L, such that
. The Ricci curvature
of L at X associated to the semi-symmetric metric connection
is given by
(6)
where
. The
is called a K-Ricci curvature. For each integer k,
, the Riemannian invariant
on
is defined by
(7)
where L is a k-plane section in
and X is a unit vector in L [19] .
Recently, T. Konfogiorgos intoduced the notion of
-contact space form [20] , which contains the well known class of sasakian space forms for
. Thus it is worthwhile to study relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic invariants of submanifolds in a
-contact space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection
.
A
-dimentional differntiable manifold
is called an almost contact metric manifold if there is an almost contact metric structure
consisting of a
tensor field
, a vector field
, a 1-form
and a compatible Riemannian metric g satisfying
(8)
. An almost contact metric structure becomes a contact metric structure if
, where
is the fundamental 2-form of
.
In a contact metric manifold
, the
-tensor field h defined by
is symmetric and satisfies
The
-nullity distribution of a contact metric manifold
is a distribution
where k and
are constants. If
,
is called a
-contact metric manifold. Since in a
-contact metric manifold one has
, therefore
and if
then the structure is Sasakian.
The sectional curvature
of a plane section spanned by a unit vector orthogonal to
is called a
-sectional curvature. If the
-contact metric manifold
has constant
-sectional curvature C, then it is called a
-contact space form and it is denoted by
. The curvature tensor of
is given by [20] .
(9)
, Where
if
.
For a vector field X on a submanifold M of a
-contact form
, Let PX be the tangential part of
. Thus, P is an endomorphism of the tangent bundle of M and satisfies
for
.
and
are the tangential parts of
and
, respectively. Let
be an orthonormal basis of
. We set
,
. Let
be a 2-plane section
spanning by an orthonormal basis
. Then
given by
is a real number in
, which is independent of the choice of orthonormal basis
. Put
Then
and
are also real numbers and do not depend on the choice of orthonormal basis
, of course,
3. Chen’s First Inequality
For submanifold of a
-contact space form endowed with a semi-symmetric non-matric connection, we establish th following optimal inequality relating the scalar curvature and the squared mean curvature, which will be called Chen first inequality. We recall the following lemma.
Lemma 3.1 ( [22] ) Let
for
be a function in
defined by
If
, then we have
with the equality holding if and only if
Theorem 3.1 Let M ba an n-dimensional
submanifold of a
-dimensional
-contact form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection
such that
. Then, for each 2-plane section
. We have,
(10)
The equality in (10) holds at
if and only if there exits an orthonormal basis
of
and an orthonormal basis
of
such that (a)
and (b) the forms of shape operators
Proof. Let
be a 2-plane section. We choose an orthonormal basis
for
and
for
such that
. Setting
,
,
,
. And using (2), (3) and (9) we get
(11)
From (11) we get
(12)
where
. On the other hand, using (11) we have
(13)
where
is denoted by
.
From (12) and (13). It follows that
(14)
Let us consider the following problem:
where
is a real constant.
From lemma 3.1, We know
(15)
with the equality holding if and only if
(16)
From (14) and (15), we have
If the equality in (10) holds, then the inequalities given by (14) and (15) become equalities. In this case we have
From [18] we know
. So choose a suitable orthonormal basis, the shape operators take the desired forms.
The converse is easy to follow.
For a Sasakian space form
, we have
and
. So using Theorem 3.1, we have the following corollary.
Corollary 3.1 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a sasakian space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then, for each point
and each plane section
, we have
(17)
If U is a tangent vector field to M, then the equality in (17) holds at
if and only there exists an orthonormal basis
of
and orthonormal basis
of
such that
and the forms of shape operators
, become
Since in case of non-Sasakian
-contact space form, we have
, thus
and
. Putting these values in (17), we can have a direct corollary to Theorem 3.1.
Corollary 3.2 Let Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a non-Sasakian
-contact space form
with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then, for each point
and each plane section
, When
,
we have
(18)
If U is a tangent vector field to M, then the equality in (18) holds at
if and only there exists an orthonormal basis
of
and orthonormal basis
of
such that
and the forms of shape operators
, become
4. Ricci Curvature and K-Ricci Curvatures
In this section, we establish inequality between Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature for submanifolds in a
-contact space form with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection. This inequality is called Chen-Ricci inequality [19] .
First we give a lemma as following. First we give a lemma as following.
Lemma 4.1 ( [22] ) Let
be a function in
defined by
If
, then we have
with the equality holding if and only if
.
Theorem 4.1 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold of a
-dimensional
-contact space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then for each point
,
1) For each unit vector X in
, we have
(19)
2) If
, a unit tangent vector
satisfies the equality case of (19) if and only if
.
3) The equality of (19) holds identically for all unit tangent vectors if and only if
either
1)
,
or
2)
,
Proof. (1) Let
be an unit vector. We choose an orthonormal basis
such that
are tangential to M at p with
.
Using (11), we have
(20)
Let us consider the function
, defined by
We consider the problem
where
is a real constant. From lemma 4.1, we have
(21)
With equality holding if and only if
(22)
From (20) and (21) we get
2) For a unit vector
, if the equality case of (19) holds, from (20), (21) and (22) we have
Since
, we know
So we get
i.e.
The converse is trivial.
3) For all unit vector
, the equality case of (19) holds if and only if
Thus we have two cases, namely either
or
.
In the first case we
In the second case we have
The converse part is straightforward.
Corollary 4.1 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a Sasakian space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then for each point
, For each unit vector X in
, for
,
we have
Corollary 4.2 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a non-Sasakian space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then for each point
, For each unit vector
,
, we have
Theorem 4.2 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a
-dimensional
-contact space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then we have
Proof. Let
be an orthonormal basis of
. We denote by
the k-plane section spanned by
. From (5) and (6), it follows that
(23)
and
(24)
Combining (7), (23) and (24), we obtain
(25)
We choose an orthonormal basis
of
such that
is in the direction of the mean curvature vector
and
diagnolize the shape operator
. Then the shape operators take the following forms:
(26)
(27)
From (11), we have
(28)
Using (26) and (28), we obtain
(29)
On the other hand from (26) and (27), we have
(30)
From (29) and (30), it follows that
Using (25), we obtain
Corollary 4.3 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a Sasakian space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then for each point
, For each unit vector
,
, we have
Corollary 4.4 Let M be an n-dimensional
submanifold in a non-Sasakian space form
endowed with a semi-symmetric non-metric connection such that
. Then for each point
, For each unit vector
,
, we have