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Chern Conjecture on Minimal Willmore Hypersurfaces with Constant Scalar Curvature

Differential Geometry 2025-12-10 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that for an nn-dimensional closed minimal Willmore hypersurface MnM^n with constant scalar curvature in the unit sphere Sn+1\mathbb{S}^{n+1}, the squared norm SS of the second fundamental form of MnM^n satisfies Sn+4n+94n2+60n+812S\geqslant n+\frac{4n+9-\sqrt{4 n^{2}+60 n+81}}{2} if S>nS>n. This proves, in the approximate sense, the Chern conjecture about the second gap (S2nS\geqslant 2n if S>nS>n), which will be fully verified under a further inequality condition about the 4-th mean curvature.

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@article{arxiv.2512.08342,
  title  = {Chern Conjecture on Minimal Willmore Hypersurfaces with Constant Scalar Curvature},
  author = {Jianquan Ge and Huixin Tan and Wenjiao Yan and Yunheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08342},
  year   = {2025}
}

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