A Frankel type theorem for generic submanifolds of Sasakian manifolds

Abstract

We introduce a weaker notion of generic submanifold of a Sasakian manifold and we prove a Frankel type theorem for this kind of submanifolds under suitable hypotesis on the index of the scalar Levi forms determined by normal directions. It concerns the intersection between a generic and an invariant submanifold and the intersection between two generic submanifolds. From this theorem we derive some topological information about generic submanifolds of Sasakian space forms.