Almost Kenmotsu manifolds and nullity distributions (Q1039864)

The authors study almost Kenmotsu manifolds, a certain class of almost contact metric manifolds. They show that \(\mathcal{D}\) (the kernel of the contact form) is CR-integrable (i.e. its integral manifolds are Kähler) iff there exists an invariant metric connection with torsion preserving the structure, which is then unique. Then, they investigate the relation between the Reeb vector field and certain curvature defined distributions, so-called nullity distributions, to prove CR-integrability results. The 3-dimensional case is discussed separately.