In this paper, we study n-dimensional complete immersed submanifolds in a Euclidean space \bm{E}
n+p. We prove that if M
n is an n-dimensional compact connected immersed submanifold with nonzero mean curvature H in \bm{E}
n+p and satisfies either:
(1) s\displaystyle ≤\frac{n
2H
2}{n-1}, or
(2) n
2H
2\displaystyle ≤\frac{(n-1)R}{n-2}, then M
n is diffeomorphic to a standard n-sphere, where S and R denote the squared norm of the second fundamental form of M
n and the scalar curvature of M
n respectively.
On the other hand, in the case of constant mean curvature, we generalized results of Klotz and Osserman [{11}] to arbitrary dimensions and codimensions; that is, we proved that the totally umbilical sphere S
n(c), the totally geodesic Euclidean space \bm{E}
n, and the generalized cylinder S
n-1(c)× \bm{E}
1 are only n-dimensional (n>2) complete connected submanifolds M
n with constant mean curvature H in \bm{E}
n+p if S≤ n
2H
2/(n-1) holds.
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