Warped product semi-invariant submanifolds in almost paracontact Riemannian manifolds (Q1036405)

Summary: We show that there exist no proper warped product semi-invariant submanifolds in almost paracontact Riemannian manifolds such that totally geodesic submanifolds and totally umbilical submanifolds of the warped product are invariant and anti-invariant, respectively. Therefore, we consider warped product semi-invariant submanifolds of the form \(N=N_{\perp }\times _{f}N_{T}\) by reversing two factor manifolds \(N_{T}\) and \(N_{\perp }\). We prove several fundamental properties of warped product semi-invariant submanifolds in an almost paracontact Riemannian manifold and establish a general inequality for an arbitrary warped product semi-invariant submanifold. After then, we investigate warped product semi-invariant submanifolds in a general almost paracontact Riemannian manifold which satisfy the equality case of the inequality.