A dimensional restriction for a class of contact manifolds

Abstract

In this work we consider a class of contact manifolds $(M,\eta )$ with an associated almost contact metric structure $(\varphi ,\xi ,\eta ,g)$. This class contains, for example, nearly cosymplectic manifolds and the manifolds in the class $C_9\oplus C_{10}$ defined by Chinea and Gonzalez. All manifolds in the class considered turn out to have dimension $4n+1$. Under the assumption that the sectional curvature of the horizontal $2$-planes is constant at one point, we obtain that these manifolds must have dimension $5$.

9 pages, accepted for publication in Demonstratio Mathematica