Ayar, GülhanYıldırım, M.Aktan, N.2026-01-102026-01-102018https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/22207In this paper, we study Ricci solitons and gradient Ricci solitons on nearly Kenmotsu manifolds. After giving some basic definitions, we prove that in a nearly Kenmotsu manifold, if the metric g admits a Ricci soliton (g,v, ?) and V is pointwise collinear with ? , then the manifold is an ?-Einstein manifold and, in particular, an Einstein manifold. Moreover, we show that if a nearly Kenmotsu manifold admits a compact Ricci soliton, then the manifold is Einstein. Finally, we prove that if an ?-Einstein nearly Kenmotsu manifold admits a gradient Ricci soliton, then the manifold reduces to an Einstein manifold under certain conditions.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessConference Object