Abstract
The purpose of this article is to obtain geometric conditions in terms of gradient Ricci curvature, both necessary and sufficient, for a warped product semi-slant in a Kenmotsu space form, to be either CR-warped product or simply a Riemannian product manifold when a basic inequality become equality. The next purpose of this paper to find the necessary condition admitting gradient Ricci soliton, that the warped product semi-slant submanifold of Kenmotsu space form, is an Einstein warped product. We also discuss some obstructions to these constructions in more detail.