1. Introduction and Motivation
Originally developed in algebraic topology, homology groups are typically linked to a series of algebraic objects, like modules or abelian groups. This notion compelled us to identify the homology groups if the two shapes could be differentiated by looking at their holes. Originally, homology was a strict mathematical technique used to identify and classify holes in a manifold. The algebraic summary of a manifold can be obtained from its homology groups, which are the most constructive topological invariants. There are numerous uses for this homology, which aids in locating deep topological details about the manifold’s dimensions, holes, tunnels, and related components. Indeed, the homology theory has applications in gene expression analysis, protein docking, image segmentation, and root construction. Similarly, Federer–Fleming [
1] demonstrated the existence of integral homology classes by rectifiable currents of least mass. Under various geometric conditions, one may create deformations of these currents, which are mass-decreasing. Thus, homology is a useful tool for studying the topology of the manifold in the class of warped product submanifolds.
A new sequence of vanishing homology and non-existence of stable integral currents in warped product submanifolds is constructed, and it first appeared in [
2]. By utilizing the results in [
3,
4,
5] and considering several conditions on the warping function of contact CR-warped product submanifolds in Sasakian space forms with a constant curvature of one, it was proved that homology groups are zero and do not exist in stable currents [see [
2] for more detail]. Later on, F. Sahin [
6,
7] proved similar results for CR-warped product submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and nearly-Kaehler six spheres
. Motivated by previous findings, Ali et al. [
8] generalized the study of [
2] to be considered a warped product pointwise semi-slant submanifold in the unit sphere. Following the study of Fu et al. [
9], Ali et al. [
10] derived the same results as [
2] for CR-warped products in complex hyperbolic spaces. As applications, such a study took a flow in several types of warped products immersed in different structures [
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15].
In this work, a generalized version of a CR-warped product submanifold was considered as a class of non-trivial warped product semi-slant submanifolds in Kenmotsu space forms of types and with a holomorphic constant sectional curvature equal to . We show that the stable current does not exist and that there are no homology groups in the warped product semi-slant submanifold in Kenmotsu space forms of types and .
2. Preliminaries
An almost contact structure
endowed with a
-dimensional manifold
satisfies the following necessary compatibility conditions
for any
tangent to
. Moreover,
,
, and
stand for
-tensor, a vector field, a dual 1-form, respectively. A contact manifold
together with (
1) and (
2) meets the following conditions according to [
16,
17]:
which is represented as
a Kenmotsu manifold provided that
is the Riemannian connection. Moreover,
stands for the Lie algebra of vector fields. The Kenmotsu manifold is a Kenmotsu space form of a constant
-sectional curvature
when the Riemannian curvature tensor can be written as (see [
8])
where
.
Remark 1. In [18], Chinea and Gonzales proved that a Kenmotsu space form with a φ-sectional curvature stands for a hyperbolic space . The Weingarten and Gauss formulas, where ∇(
) represents induced connections on the tangent bundle
(normal bundle
) of submanifold
, are given by
for each
and
, where
and
are the second fundamental form and shape operator. They are written as
For any vector field
, from (4) and (
6) (i), we may write
If
and
,
where
and
stand for tangential and normal components of
, respectively. The
-tensor
T follows that
for every
. If the following equation holds:
for any
, then Equation (
11) is called a Gauss equation.
It should be noted that throughout this manuscript, we will use as a submanifold of the Kenmotsu manifold , i.e., . Now, we have the following classification of the submanifold theory:
- (a)
If the mean curvature of is equal to zero, then is minimal in .
- (b)
If the second fundamental form is absent everywhere on , then is totally geodesic in .
- (c)
A totally umbilical form of in implies , for any .
- (d)
If the tangent bundle of is satisfied for , then is an invariant submanifold. An anti-invariant submanifold is satisfied for a normal bundle of at point p.
- (e)
If the angle
between
and
is constant for any vector
, then
is a slant submanifold of
along slant angle
(see [
19] for more details). Moreover,
is a slant if it satisfies the following:
for
and
[
17,
19].
- (f)
If the tangent bundle is satisfied for an invariant distribution , anti-invariant , then is a CR-submanifold. Moreover, is the 1-dimensional distribution spanned by the structure vector field .
Motivated by (
12), we have a useful equality
for any
.
There are some other classifications, such as the following:
- (i)
A submanifold
stands for a semi-slant submanifold [
20] if the tangent bundle
is satisfied
for the
-invariant
and proper slant
with a slant angle
.
- (ii)
A submanifold stands for a pseudo-slant submanifold if the tangent bundle satisfies for the anti-invariant and slant distribution with an angle .
Now, if the tangent space
has an orthonormal basis
and a normal bundle
has the orthonormal basis
, then we define
Furthermore, consider the gradient
of the function
on
. Then, for any
, we have the following equalities:
has a covariant derivative
for any
.
A general warped product of type
is defined in [
21] such that
is a warping function defined on the base
, and it is a positive differentiable function. The following formula is defined for vector fields
and
on
and
, respectively, in Lemma 7.3 [
21]:
where ∇ denotes the Levi–Civita connection on base
. It is defined that the base
is totally geodesic in
and the fiber
is totally umbilical in
. Motivated by these concepts,
CR-Warped Product Manifold
A warped product of type
is called a CR-warped product that includes invariant
and anti-invariant submanifolds
. Moreover, warped product semi-slant submanifolds in the Kenmotsu manifold are discussed [
17,
22]. In our study, we consider the warped product semi-slant submanifold
that includes invariant, anti-invariant, and slant submanifolds
,
and
, respectively. For simplicity throughout this section, the tangent spaces of
and
are represented by
and
, respectively.
It can be seen that
is tangent to
if the semi-slant warped product submanifold discussed in [
23] exists. That is, we have
for any vector field
. Using (
18) and then taking the inner product with
, we obtain
The optimization for the second fundamental form was obtained by Lawson–Simons [
3], which resulted in the nonexistence of stable currents in compact submanifolds in a connected space form and vanishing homology in a range of intermediate dimensions. For our preliminary findings, we shall use Theorem 1.1 [
9], which is
Theorem 1. [9] Let be a compact submanifold of dimension n in a hyperbolic space with a negative constant curvature . If the strict inequality for the second fundamental form is satisfied, then has no stable p-currents with a vanished homology group, i.e.,where . Based on the above theorem, we announce our result as follows:
Theorem 2. If the warping function μ of the compact warped product semi-slant submanifold in the Kentmotsu space form satisfies the following equality with :then the stable -current does not exist and there are no homology groups in , i.e., , where and of μ are defined as the Laplacian and the gradient, respectively. Proof. Suppose the
is a
)-dimensional warped product semi-slant submanifold. If
and
stand for integrable manifolds of
and
, such that
and
, respectively, then the orthonormal bases of
and
are represented as
and
. On the other hand, the orthonormal basis of
is represented as
. Thus, by combining the equation Gauss (
11) and the Kenmotsu manifold
of constant section curvature
(
5), we have
Through a rearrangement of the second fundamental term, we find that
From orthonormal bases
and
of
and
, respectively, in (
19), we derive
Utilizing the inner product with
leads to
Thus, from Equations (
23) and (
24), we derive
In order to work with
, we must first calculate its Laplacian
for
, allowing one to obtain
After simplification, we arrive at
When the gradient function property is used, then it can be determined that
The result of some computation is as follows:
It is observed that
is totally geodesic in
. It indicates that
. Thus, we obtain
Finally, from (
13), we obtain
By using the relation
, the previous equation gives
Thus, from (
25) and (
26), we compute that
Now, the challenge is to derive the third term on the right-hand side of the proceeding equation, as follows:
By considering the dimension of the Kenmotsu manifold
, the
-component in the second part on the right side with
-component is identical to zero [
17]. From the definition of orthonormal basis of
and
, such that
and
, we define
By referring back to all the relations of Lemma 4 [
17], it is derived that
This relation will be written as
which implies
Following on from (
27) and (
28), we arrive at
Equation (
21) in Theorem 2 must be satisfied for the following equation to be true:
We may invoke Theorem 1.1 from [
9]. This completes the proof of the theorem. □
Theorem 3. Let be a compact warped product semi-slant submanifold of the Kenmotsu manifold when and the following restriction holds:Then, the stable -current does not exist and there are no homology groups in , i.e., . Proof. We will start the equality from Lemma 4.1 (i) of [
11] as follows:
for any
and
. Then, we obtain the following conditions:
Thus, following on from Equation (
28), we obtain
If (
30) is satisfied, then, from (
32), we obtain
Therefore, using Theorem 1.1 [
9], we obtain the required proof. □
An application of Theorem 2 and Lawson–Simon (Theorem 4 of [
8], p. 441) is given in the theorem.
Theorem 4. If the warping function μ of the compact warped product semi-slant submanifold in a Kentmotsu space form satisfies the following with :then is homeomorphic to , provided that , and it is homotopic to if , where is a standard unit sphere. Proof. The conclusion and explanation are given in Theorem 1.2 [
9]. This completes the proof of the theorem. □
The following corollaries are a direct consequence of Theorems 2 and 3 by substituting to a generalized CR-warped product as
Corollary 1. Let be a compact contact CR-warped product submanifold of having the inequalitythen the stable -current does not exist and there are no homology groups in , i.e., . From Theorem 3, we have
Corollary 2. Let be a compact contact CR-warped product submanifold of the Kenmotsu manifold that is compact. Thus, the following assumption is satisfied:Therefore, the stable -current does not exist and there are no homology groups in , i.e., . It is easy to prove the next theorem after proving Theorem 3.
Theorem 5. Let be a compact warped product semi-slant submanifold of the Kenmotsu manifold when and when preserving the following restriction:Thus, is homeomorphic to , provided that , and it is homotopic to if , where is a standard unit sphere. Proof. Due to Theorem 3 and Lawson–Simon (Theorem 4 of [
8], p. 441), we obtain the required conclusion and explanation given in [
6,
7,
8,
9]. This completes the proof. □
Using Theorem 5, the next corollary is given by putting , as follows:
Corollary 3. Let be a contact CR-warped product submanifold of that is compact, and the following restriction holds:Thus, is homeomorphic to , provided that , and it is homotopic to if , where is a standard unit sphere. Follow Theorem 4 and Corollary 1, we find that
Corollary 4. Let be a compact contact CR-warped product submanifold of having the inequalityThus, is homeomorphic to if and it is homotopic to if ., where is a standard sphere.