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Abstract

We define four new classes
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of contact metric manifoulds using Tanaka connection
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and Jacobi operators. We prove that a contact metric manifold with the structure vector field ξ belonging to thek-nullity distribution is contact metric locally ϕ-symmetric (in the sense of D. B. Blair) if and only if the manifold is a
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and
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space. Also, we prove that a 3-dimensional contact metric
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and
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is locally ϕ-symmetric (in the sense of D. E. Blair) and give counter-examples of the converse.

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