Spherical Submanifolds of a Euclidean Space (Q4797004)

Conditions for the submanifold to lie on the sphere are obtained. It is shown that a connected submanifold \(M\) lies on the sphere \(S^{(n+p)}(c)\) for some \(c\) if and only if \(g(H,\psi)\) is constant, where \(H\) is the mean curvature vector field and \(\psi\) is the position vector. Studied are also codimension 2 isometric immersions of a compact connected Riemannian manifold with parallel mean curvature vector field. It is observed that if the sectional curvatures of \(M\) are strictly positive and the scalar curvature satisfies \(S< n(n- 1)\lambda^{-2}\), then no such isometric immersion is contained in the ball of radius \(\lambda\).