A general inequality for CR-warped products in generalized Sasakian space form and its applications (Q2244299)

The fundamental idea of warped product manifolds was first initiated in [\textit{R. L. Bishop} and \textit{B. O'Neill}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 145, 1--49 (1969; Zbl 0191.52002)] with manifolds of negative curvature. Let \(N_1\) and \(N_2\) be two Riemannian manifolds endowed with Riemannian matrices \(g_1\) and \(g_2\), respectively, such that \(f : N_1\rightarrow (0,\infty)\) is a positive smooth function on \(N_1\). Then, the warped product \(M = N_1 \times_f N_2\) is the product manifold \(N_1 \times N_2\) equipped with the metric \(g = g_1 + f^2 g_2\). In particular, if \(f =\) constant, then \(M\) turns into a Riemannian product manifold; otherwise, \(M\) is called a nontrivial warped product manifold. In [\textit{B.-Y. Chen}, Hokkaido Math. J. 32, No. 2, 415--444 (2003; Zbl 1049.53039)], Chen established the inequality for the squared norm of the mean curvature and the warping function \(f\) of a CR-warped product \(N_T \times_f N_\bot\), where \(N_\bot\) is a totally real submanifold and \(N_T\) is a holomorphic submanifold, isometrically immersed in a complex space form. Furthermore, \textit{A. Mustafa} et al. [Balkan J. Geom. Appl. 20, No. 1, 86--97 (2015; Zbl 1332.53073)] recalled some fundamental problems of CR-warped products in Kenmotsu space forms to simplify relationships between the second fundamental form and the main intrinsic invariants by using the Gauss equation. In [\textit{A. Ali} and \textit{C. Ozel}, Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 14, No. 3, Article ID 1750042, 29 p. (2017; Zbl 1362.53062)] some sharp inequalities are established for the sectional curvature of warped product pointwise semislant submanifolds in various space forms such as a Sasakian space form, a cosymplectic space form, a Kenmotsu space form, and a complex space form in terms of the Laplacian and the squared norm of a warping function with pointwise slant immersions. Afterward, several geometers obtained similar inequalities for different types of warped products in different kinds of structures. In this paper, the authors establish a Chen-type inequality for CR-warped product submanifolds in a generalized Sasakian space form by considering the nontrivial case \(N_T \times_f N_\bot\) and, by considering the Gauss equation in place of the Codazzi equation. They also find some applications of the inequality in the compact Riemannian manifold by using integration theory on manifolds.