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 -dimensional closed minimal Willmore hypersurface with constant scalar curvature in the unit sphere , the squared norm of the second fundamental form of satisfies if . This proves, in the approximate sense, the Chern conjecture about the second gap ( if ), 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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12 pages