Lawson's Clifford torus uniqueness conjecture
Lawson's Clifford torus uniqueness conjecture
Let be an embedded minimal torus, and let denote the Clifford torus in . Lawson's conjecture. There exists an isometry of such that
In other words, up to ambient isometries, the Clifford torus is the unique embedded minimal torus in . The conjecture is a fundamental rigidity question for embedded minimal surfaces in the three-sphere; the supplied source does not establish whether it has been resolved.
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Primary source
Niang Chen, “Rigidity and Gap Phenomena in the Sphere–Ball Correspondence”, arXiv:2603.13061 (2026).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2004.03320, arXiv:1307.6938.
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