SCALAR CURVATURE OF HYPERSURFACES WITH CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE IN UNIT SPHERES

Let M be an n-dimensional closed hypersurface with constant mean curvature H in a unit sphere Sn+1, n ≤ 8, and S the squared length of the second fundamental form of M. If |H| ≤ ε(n), then there exists a positive constant α(n, H), which depends only on n and H, such that if S0 ≤ S ≤ S0 + α(n, H), then S ≡ S0 and M is isometric to a Clifford hypersurface, where ε(n) is a positive constant depending only on n and [Formula: see text].