A non-existence theorem for isometric immersions (Q1009684)

The author extends a well-known non-embedding theorem of \textit{S. Chern} and \textit{N. H. Kuiper} [Ann. Math. (2) 56, 422--430 (1952; Zbl 0052.17601)] from the case of isometric immersions of a compact manifold into Euclidean space to the case of isometric immersions of a non-compact Riemannian manifold into another that satisfies various conditions. The new result also generalizes and improves work by \textit{L. Jorge} and \textit{D. Koutroufiotis} [Am. J. Math. 103, 711--725 (1981; Zbl 0472.53055)] and by \textit{A. R. Veeravalli} [Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 62, No. 1, 165--170 (2000; Zbl 0992.53045)]. The proof employs a weak maximum principle for the Hessian due to \textit{S. Pigola, M. Rigoli} and \textit{A. G. Setti} [Maximum principles on Riemannian manifolds and applications. Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 822 (2005; Zbl 1075.58017)] and computations from the author's earlier paper [Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat., Nova Sér. 32, No. 2, 159--171 (2001; Zbl 1032.53047)].