On Trans-Sasakian Manifolds with the Schouten-van Kampen Connection

Abstract

The object of the present paper is to characterize $3$-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifolds with respect to the Schouten-van Kampen connection.

Keywords

• Schouten-van Kampen connection,trans-Sasakian manifolds,projective curvature tensor,conharmonical curvatutr tensor

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