Conjecture on constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces in the four-sphere
Conjecture on constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces in the four-sphere
Let be a closed hypersurface with constant mean curvature in , and let denote the squared length of its second fundamental form. Write for the quantity used in the paper. The four-sphere constant-mean-curvature conjecture. (i) If , then or ; equivalently, is a Clifford torus or a tube of the Veronese surface. (ii) If , then , so is a tube of the Veronese surface. The paper explicitly notes that the case remains open, while the constant-scalar-curvature case was known under additional assumptions.
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Hong-wei Xu and Zhi-yuan Xu, “A new characterization of the Clifford torus via scalar curvature pinching”, arXiv:1308.3788 (2013).
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