Conjecture on constant-mean-curvature hypersurfaces in the four-sphere

Let MM be a closed hypersurface with constant mean curvature HH in S4\mathbb{S}^{4}, and let SS denote the squared length of its second fundamental form. Write β(3,H)\beta(3,H) for the quantity used in the paper. The four-sphere constant-mean-curvature conjecture. (i) If β(3,H)S6+9H2\beta(3,H)\leq S\leq 6+9H^2, then Sβ(3,H)S\equiv\beta(3,H) or S6+9H2S\equiv 6+9H^2; equivalently, MM is a Clifford torus or a tube of the Veronese surface. (ii) If S6+9H2S\geq 6+9H^2, then S6+9H2S\equiv 6+9H^2, so MM is a tube of the Veronese surface. The paper explicitly notes that the case H=0H=0 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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