A generalized Wintgen inequality in quaternion Kähler geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a generalized Wintgen inequality for quaternionic bi-slant submanifolds and QR-submanifolds (with minimal codimension) in quaternion space forms. We also aim to characterize the second fundamental form of those submanifolds for which the equality cases can hold. Finally, we provide examples of submanifolds embedded in quaternion space forms to support our results.