Ricci curvature on warped product submanifolds of complex space forms and its applications

Abstract

The upper bound of Ricci curvature conjecture, also known as Chen-Ricci conjecture, was formulated by Chen [B. Y. Chen, Relations between Ricci curvature and shape operator for submanifolds with arbitrary codimension, Glasgow Math. J. 41 (1999) 33–41] and modified by Tripathi [M. M. Tripathi, Improved Chen–Ricci inequality for curvature-like tensors and its applications, Diff. Geom. Appl. 29 (2011) 685–698]. In this paper, first, we define partially minimal isometric immersion of warped product manifolds. Then, we derive a fundamental theorem for Ricci curvature via partially minimal isometric immersions from a warped product pointwise bi-slant submanifolds into complex space forms. Some applications are constructed in terms of Dirichlet energy function, Hamiltonian, Lagrangian and Hessian tensor due to appearance of the positive differential function in the inequality.