We prove a best possible lower bound on the Ricci curvature of an immersed submanifold in a Euclidean space and apply it to study the size of the Gauss image of a complete noncompact hypersurface with constant positive mean curvature in a Euclidean space.
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Pui Fai Leung (1992) studied this question.