Abstract
We study isometric embeddings of C2 Riemannian manifolds in the Euclidean space and we establish that the Hölder space C1,12is critical in a suitable sense: in particular we prove that for α >12 the Levi-Civita connection of any isometric immersion is induced by the Euclidean connection, whereas for any α <12 we construct C1,α isometric embeddings of portions of the standard 2-dimensional sphere for which such property fails.