Bulletin of the
Korean Mathematical Society BKMS

In this paper, we introduce the idea of twisted product lightlike submanifolds of semi-Riemannian manifolds and provide non-trivial examples of such lightlike submanifolds. Then, we prove the non-existence of proper isotropic or totally lightlike twisted product submanifolds of a semi-Riemannian manifold. We also show that for a twisted product lightlike submanifold of a semi-Riemannian manifold, the induced connection $\nabla$ is not a metric connection. Further, we prove that a totally umbilical $SCR$-lightlike submanifold of an indefinite Kaehler manifold $\tilde{M}$ does not admit any twisted product $SCR$-lightlike submanifold of the type $M_{\perp}\times_{\phi}M_{T}$, where $M_{\perp}$ is a totally real submanifold and $M_{T}$ is a holomorphic submanifold of $\tilde{M}$. Consequently, we obtain a geometric inequality for the second fundamental form of twisted product $SCR$-lightlike submanifolds of the type $M_{T}\times_{\phi}M_{\perp}$ of an indefinite Kaehler manifold $\tilde{M}$, in terms of the gradient of $\ln \phi$, where $\phi$ stands for the twisting function. Subsequently, the equality case of this inequality is discussed. Finally, we construct a non-trivial example of a twisted product $SCR$-lightlike submanifold in an indefinite Kaehler manifold.

Keywords: Twisted product lightlike submanifold, indefinite Kaehler manifold, $SCR$-lightlike submanifold

MSC numbers: 53B30, 53B25, 53B35

Supported by: This work was financially supported by SERB, GoI vide File No. ECR/2017/000786.