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In this paper certain topological obstructions are given which restrict the class of such manifolds. In particular infinitely many simply connected 4- manifolds cannot be immersed tightly (among them the Kummer surface).    The results are the following: Let \\(M^{2k}\\to E^{2k+l}\\) be a substantial tight immersion of a (k-1)-connected manifold. If the k-th Stiefel-Whitney class \\(w_ k(M)\\) vanishes then \\(l=1\\) or \\(l=2\\), otherwise \\(k=1,2,4,8\\) and \\(l=k\\), \\(k+1\\) or \\(k+2\\) (in the cases \\(k=4\\) or \\(k=8\\) only \\(l=k+1\\) or \\(k+2)\\). Moreover if \\(w_ k(M)=0\\) and \\(k>2\\) M must have the integral cohomology ring of a connected sum of copies of \\(S^ k\\times S^ k.\\)    For 4-manifolds \\((k=2)\\) the following is shown: codimension \\(l\\geq 3\\) implies that M splits into \\(M\\cong {\\mathbb{C}}P^ 2\\#N\\), \\(l=2\\) implies that M splits into \\(M\\cong (S^ 2\\times S^ 2)\\#N\\) and the Betti number \\(\\beta_ 2(M)\\) is even. In particular there is no tight immersion \\({\\mathbb{C}}P^ 2\\#(-{\\mathbb{C}}P^ 2)\\to E^ 6\\). The results by Donaldson about the non-splitting of manifolds as a connected sum lead to the corollary that many simply connected 4-manifolds have no tight immersion into any Euclidean space (including the K3-surfaces). It remains an open problem if there are tight immersions \\(M^ 4\\to E^ 6\\) of simply connected 4-manifolds with \\(w_ 2\\neq 0.\\)    The proof uses top sets and top cycles. The key observation is that a point \\(p\\in M\\) which is a nondegenerate minimum for some height function is contained in convex top cycles of dimension k in a \\((k+1)\\)-dimensional affine subspace meeting transversally at p, and that these top cycles are parametrized over \\(S^{l-2}\\). Consequently for \\(l\\geq 3\\) there are infinitely many of them, and hence at least one k-homology class has selfintersection \\(\\pm 1\\). Then the machinery of quadratic forms, characteristic classes, Wu formula, signature theorem etc. is applied to get the results.    \\{Reviewer's remark: The assumption of smoothness is essential. 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