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IJMMS 32:8 (2002) 481–490 PII. S0161171202203403 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CHERN CLASSES OF INTEGRAL SUBMANIFOLDS OF SOME CONTACT MANIFOLDS GHEORGHE PITI¸S Received 10 March 2002 A complex subbundle of the normal bundle to an integral submanifold of the contact distribution in a Sasakian manifold is given. The geometry of this bundle is investigated and some results concerning its Chern classes are obtained. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C25, 57R42, 53D35. ˜ 1. Introduction. Let M be a (2m + 1)-dimensional manifold endowed with the almost contact metric structure F , ξ, η, g . These tensor fields satisfy the conditions F 2 = −I + η ⊗ ξ, η(ξ) = 1, g(FX,FY ) = g(X,Y ) − η(X)η(Y ), (1.1) ˜ for all vector fields X,Y tangent to M . ˜ Let be the contact distribution of M , defined by the equation η = 0. The study of the integral submanifolds of is very difficult for, at least, three reasons: (a) their abundance (see, e.g., [1, 5, 8]), (b) the nonexistence of a natural structure induced on the submanifold M , resulting from the equalities η = 0, dη = 0, true along M , and (c) for any vector field X tangent to M , the vector field FX is normal to M and therefore, freely speaking, the geometry of an integral submanifold of is normal to the submanifold. However, for maximal integral submanifolds (i.e., dimM = m), we know many properties (see, e.g., [ 1, Chapter V]); while for nonmaximal integral submanifolds, we have so few results.