A class of four-dimensional CR submanifolds in six dimensional nearly Kähler manifolds

Abstract

Abstract We investigate four-dimensional CR submanifolds in six-dimensional strict nearly Kähler manifolds. We construct a moving frame that nicely corresponds to their CR structure and use it to investigate CR submanifolds that admit a special type of doubly twisted product structure. Moreover, we single out a class of CR submanifolds containing this type of doubly twisted submanifolds. Further, in a particular case of the sphere S 6 ⁢ ( 1 ) $ \mathbb{S}^{6}(1) $ , we show that the two families of four-dimensional CR submanifolds, those that admit a three-dimensional geodesic distribution and those ruled by totally geodesic spheres S 3 $ \mathbb{S}^{3} $ coincide, and give their classification, which as a subfamily contains a family of doubly twisted CR submanifolds.