Curvature identities for normal manifolds of Killing type (Q1277530)

An almost contact metric manifold \((M,\varphi,\xi, \eta,g)\) is said to be a CNK-manifold if it is normal, i.e., \(N_\varphi+ 2d\eta\otimes \xi= 0\), where \(N_\varphi\) denotes the Nijenhuis tensor of \(\varphi\) and \(\xi\) is a Killing vector field. The class of CNK-manifolds generalizes the Sasakian, quasi-Sasakian, cosymplectic and weakly cosymplectic classes. CNK-manifolds which are locally conformal almost contact metric manifolds with closed fundamental 2-form are called Cc-manifolds. A CNK-manifold \(M\) is said to be of class \(R_1\) if the curvature tensor field \(R\) satisfies \(R(X,\xi) Y= R(\varphi X,\xi)\varphi Y\) for all fields \(X\), \(Y\) orthogonal to \(\xi\), and \(M\) is said to be of class \(R_2\) if \(R\) satisfies \(R(X,\xi)\xi= 0\) for all \(X\). In this paper, the author studies some properties of these classes of almost contact metric manifolds. Among other results, she proves that the distribution \(\text{Im }{\mathcal B}\), where \({\mathcal B}(X)= \nabla_X\xi\), on a C-manifold of class \(R_1\) is involutive if and only if \(M\) is locally equivalent to the product of a quasi-Sasakian manifold and a Kähler manifold. She also obtains that a CNK-manifold \(M\) is of class \(R_2\) if and only if \(M\) is locally a product of a Hermitian manifold and \(\mathbb{R}\).