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In this paper, we study a class of almost contact manifolds, namely locally conformal almost manifolds. We investigate subclasses of such manifolds and prove that some of them contain the class of bundle-like metric structures. Under some conditions, we prove that the class of conformal changes of almost cosymplectic structures is a subclass of (almost)-cosymplectic structures. Examples are also obtained.
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A. Maloko Mavambou would like to thank the Simons Foundation through the RGSM-Project for financial support. The authors thank the referee for helping them to improve the presentation.
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Massamba, F., Mavambou, A.M. A Class of Locally Conformal Almost Cosymplectic Manifolds. Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. 41, 545–563 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40840-016-0309-3
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