Mass from an extrinsic point of view

We express the q-th Gauss--Bonnet--Chern mass of an immersed submanifold of Euclidean space as a linear combination of two terms: the total $(2q)$-th mean curvature and the integral, over the entire manifold, of the inner product between the $(2q+1)$-th mean curvature vector and the position vector of the immersion. As a consequence, we obtain, for each q, a geometric inequality that holds whenever the positive mass theorem (for the q-th Gauss--Bonnet--Chern mass) holds.