Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
The restricted homogeneous holonomy group of an n–dimensional Riemannian manifold is a connected closed subgroup of the proper orthogonal group SO(n) [1]. In this note we shall prove that the restricted homogeneous holonomy group of an n-dimensional compact hypersurface in the Euclidean space is actually the proper orthogonal group SO(n) itself. This gives a necessary (of course, not sufficient) condition for the imbedding of an n-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold into the (n +1)–dimensional Euclidean space.