Chern's discreteness conjecture for minimal submanifolds with constant scalar curvature
Chern's discreteness conjecture for minimal submanifolds with constant scalar curvature
Let be a closed, minimally immersed submanifold in the unit sphere with constant scalar curvature, equivalently with constant length of the second fundamental form, whose squared norm is denoted by . Chern's conjecture. For each , the set of all possible values for 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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Primary source
Jianquan Ge, Fagui Li and Yunheng Zhang, “On Chern's Conjecture for Minimal Submanifolds with Flat Normal Bundle in Spheres”, arXiv:2607.10733 (2026).
Additional references
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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