Complete submanifolds in Euclidean spaces with parallel mean curvature vector (Q5953025): Difference between revisions

\textit{T. Klotz} and \textit{R. Osserman} [Comment. Math. Helv. 41, 313-318 (1966; Zbl 0163.16002)] showed that a complete connected surface in the Euclidean space \(E^3 \) with constant mean curvature and nonnegative Gauss curvature is the plane \(E^2,\) the sphere \(S^2(c)\) or the cylinder \(S^1(c)\times E^1.\) In this paper, this theorem is generalized for higher dimensional submanifolds as follows: Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional complete and connected submanifold with parallel mean curvature vector \(H\) in the Euclidean space \(E^{n+p}, n\geq 3.\) If the length \(\langle h\rangle\) of the second fundamental form of \(M\) satisfies \[ \langle h\rangle^2\leq \frac{n^2|H|^2}{n-1} \] then \(M\) is the totally geodesic Euclidean space \(E^n,\) the totally umbilical sphere \(S^n(c)\) or the generalized cylinder \(S^{n-1}(c)\times E^1\) in \(E^{n+1}\).