Abstract: | Given a submanifold Pm with the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of its second fundamental form bounded from above, in a real space form of constant curvature we have obtained a lower bound for the norm of the mean curvature normal vector field of extrinsic spheres with sufficiently small radius in Pm in terms of the mean curvature of the geodesic spheres in with same radius, and the mean curvature of Pm.Received: 4 April 2003 |