Rigidity of Closed Minimal Hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{S}^5$
Abstract
The celebrated Chern conjecture asserts that any closed minimal hypersurface in with constant scalar curvature is isoparametric. In this paper, we resolve this conjecture in the affirmative for under the assumption that the Gauss-Kronecker curvature is constant. This result breaks the traditional reliance on consecutive trace conditions, demonstrating that the nonconsecutive spectral invariant set is sufficient to yield complete geometric rigidity. To overcome the analytical singular locus, we construct two novel weighted -forms adapted to and . Crucially, the global curvature estimates required to close our analysis are obtained unconditionally by proving the Euler characteristic . 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