The k-almost Yamabe solitons and almost coKähler manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we study almost coKähler manifolds admitting [Formula: see text]-almost Yamabe solitons [Formula: see text]. First, we obtain a classification of almost coKähler [Formula: see text]-manifolds admitting nontrivial closed [Formula: see text]-almost Yamabe solitons. Next, we consider an almost [Formula: see text]-coKähler manifold admitting a nontrivial [Formula: see text]-almost Yamabe soliton and prove that it is locally the Riemannian product of an almost Kähler manifold with the real line if the potential vector field [Formula: see text] is collinear with the Reeb vector field. For the potential vector field [Formula: see text] being orthogonal to the Reeb vector field, we also obtain two results.