We treat m-dimensional real submanifolds M of complex space forms M when the maximal holomorphic tangent subspace is (m − 1)-dimensional. On these manifolds there exists an almost contact structure F which is naturally induced from the ambient space and in this paper we study the condition h(F X, Y ) − h(X, FY ) = g(F X, Y )η, η ∈ T ⊥ (M), on the structure F and on the second fundamental form h of these submanifolds. Especially when the ambient space M is a complex Euclidean space, we obtain a complete classification of submanifolds M which satisfy these conditions. (2000): 53C15, 53C40, 53B20.
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