Almost paracontact structures obtained from G*2(2) structures

Abstract

In this paper, we construct almost paracontact metric structures by using the fundamental 3-forms of manifolds with G*(2(2))structures. The existence of certain almost paracontact metric structures is investigated due to the properties of the 2-fold vector cross-product. Furthermore, we give some relations between the classes of G*(2(2)) structures and almost paracontact metric structures.