Chern's discreteness conjecture for minimal submanifolds with constant scalar curvature

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Let MnM^n be a closed, minimally immersed submanifold in the unit sphere Sn+m\mathbb{S}^{n+m} with constant scalar curvature, equivalently with constant length of the second fundamental form, whose squared norm is denoted by SS. Chern's conjecture. For each nn, the set of all possible values for SS is discrete. The conjecture predicts a strong rigidity phenomenon for minimal submanifolds with constant scalar curvature. It is supported by known pinching and classification results, but remains open in general.

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Jianquan Ge, Fagui Li and Yunheng Zhang, “On Chern's Conjecture for Minimal Submanifolds with Flat Normal Bundle in Spheres”, arXiv:2607.10733 (2026).

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16 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2607.06588, arXiv:2607.04297, arXiv:2606.30432, arXiv:2603.20890, arXiv:2601.22437, arXiv:2503.23194, arXiv:2209.07955, arXiv:2104.08104, arXiv:2103.07747, arXiv:1810.13080, arXiv:1712.01175, arXiv:1605.07250, and 3 more.

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