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Rigidity of Closed Minimal Hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^5$

Differential Geometry 2026-06-28 v1

Abstract

The celebrated Chern conjecture asserts that any closed minimal hypersurface in Sn+1\mathbb{S}^{n+1} with constant scalar curvature is isoparametric. In this paper, we resolve this conjecture in the affirmative for M4S5M^4 \subset \mathbb S^5 under the assumption that the Gauss-Kronecker curvature KK is constant. This result breaks the traditional reliance on consecutive trace conditions, demonstrating that the nonconsecutive spectral invariant set {H,S,K}\{H, S, K\} is sufficient to yield complete geometric rigidity. To overcome the analytical singular locus, we construct two novel weighted 33-forms adapted to SS and KK. Crucially, the global curvature estimates required to close our analysis are obtained unconditionally by proving the Euler characteristic χ(M)=0\chi(M)=0. This local-to-global approach provides a new paradigm for higher-dimensional rigidity problems.

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@article{arxiv.2606.29246,
  title  = {Rigidity of Closed Minimal Hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^5$},
  author = {Jianquan Ge and Tong Liu and Keyan Luo and Wenjiao Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29246},
  year   = {2026}
}

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31 pages, 3 figures