Almost Extrinsically Homogeneous Submanifolds of Euclidean Space

Consider a closed manifold M immersed in R^m. Suppose that the trivial bundle M × R^m = T M ⊗ ν M is equipped with an almost metric connection ~ ∇ which almost preserves the decomposition of M × R^m into the tangent and the normal bundle. Assume moreover that the difference Γ = ∂~∇ with the usual derivative ∂ in R^m is almost ~∇-parallel. Then M admits an extrinsically homogeneous immersion into R^m. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 53C20, 53C24, 53C30, 53C42, 53C40.