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IJMMS 31:3 (2002) 167–175 PII. S0161171202109288 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CR-SUBMANIFOLDS OF A NEARLY TRANS-SASAKIAN MANIFOLD FALLEH R. AL-SOLAMY Received 26 September 2001 This paper considers the study of CR-submanifolds of a nearly trans-Sasakian manifold, generalizing the results of trans-Sasakian manifolds and thus those of Sasakian manifolds. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C40. 1. Introduction. In 1978, Bejancu introduced the notion of CR-submanifold of a Kaehler manifold [ 1]. Since then several papers on CR-submanifolds of Kaehler mani- fold have been published. On the other hand, CR-submanifolds of a Sasakian manifold have been studied by Kobayashi [6], Shahid et al. [10], Yano and Kon [11], and others. Bejancu and Papaghuic [2] studied CR-submanifolds of a Kenmotsu manifold. In 1985, Oubina introduced a new class of almost contact metric manifold known as trans- Sasakian manifold [7]. This class contains α-Sasakian and β-Kenmotsu manifold [5]. Geometry of CR-submanifold of trans-Sasakian manifold was studied by Shahid [8, 9]. A nearly trans-Sasakian manifold [4] is a more general concept. The results of this paper are the generalization of the results obtained earlier by several authors, namely [6, 8, 9] and others. 2. Preliminaries. Let M be an n-dimensional almost contact metric manifold with an almost contact metric structure (φ,ξ,η,g) satisfying [3] φ2X = −X + η(X)ξ, η(ξ) = 1, φ ◦ξ = 0, (2.1) g(φX,φY ) = g(X,Y ) − η(X)η(Y ), g(X,ξ) = η(X), where X and Y are vector fields tangent to M . An almost contact metric structure (φ,ξ,η,g) on M is called trans-Sasakian if [7]