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The purpose of this paper is to study the Fischer–Marsden conjecture on a class of almost Kenmotsu manifolds. We characterize non-Kenmotsu \((\kappa , \mu )^\prime \)-almost Kenmotsu manifolds satisfying the Fischer–Marsden equation.
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Prakasha, D.G., Veeresha, P. & Venkatesha The Fischer–Marsden conjecture on non-Kenmotsu \((\kappa , \mu )^\prime \)-almost Kenmotsu manifolds. J. Geom. 110, 1 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-018-0457-8
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