Abstract: | For a Cr,-immersion z:X E, r 2, 0 < < 1, of an n-dimensional (n 1) simply-connected Cr+2,-manifold X into Euclidean space E, the metric I(z) induced by z has a neighborhood in Cr,-topology in which every metric from a given subbundle of metrics is Cr,-immersible into E. In particular, it is proved that metric ds02 of the Riemannian product of p spheres of dimensions 1, , p 2 has a neighborhood in C2,-topology from which any conformally equivalent metric to ds02, is immersible into E with dimE = 1 + + p + p. The proofs are based on the investigation of a varied system of Gauss—Codazzi—Ricci equations for an infinitely small deformation of surface z(X) in E with a prescribed variation of the metric.Translated from Ukrainskii Geometricheskii Sbornik, No. 35, pp. 49–67, 1992. |