• 1 Bangalore University

The object of this paper is to study generalized φ-recurrent almost Kenmotsu manifolds with characteristic vector field ξ belonging to (k, µ)-nullity distribution. We have showed that these manifolds reduce to Kenmotsu manifolds with scalar curvature-1. Further we establish the relations among the associated 1-forms and proved the conditions under which gradient Ricci almost soliton reduce to gradient Ricci soliton.