%0 Journal Article %T A new obstruction to minimal isometric immersions into a real space form %A Teodor Oprea %J Mathematics %D 2005 %I arXiv %X In the theory of minimal submanifold, the following problem is fundamental: when does a given Riemannian manifold admit (or does not admit) a minimal isometric immersion into an Euclidean space form of arbitrary dimension? A partial solution of this problem was obtained by B.Y. Chen as an application of his fundamental inequality [1]. In this paper we obtain another partial solution of this problem. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511089v1