We consider invariant submanifolds of a trans-Sasakian manifold and obtain the conditions under which the submanifolds are totally geodesic. We also study invariant submanifolds of a trans-Sasakian manifold satisfying Z(X, Y).h = 0, where Z is the concircular curvature tensor.
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