The second pinching theorem for hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in a sphere

We generalize the second pinching theorem for minimal hypersurfaces in a sphere due to Peng-Terng, Wei-Xu, Zhang, and Ding-Xin to the case of hypersurfaces with small constant mean curvature. Let $M^n$ be a compact hypersurface with constant mean curvature $H$ in $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$. Denote by $S$ the squared norm of the second fundamental form of $M$. We prove that there exist two positive constants $γ(n)$ and $δ(n)$ depending only on $n$ such that if $|H|\leqγ(n)$ and $β(n,H)\leq S\leqβ(n,H)+δ(n)$, then $S\equivβ(n,H)$ and $M$ is one of the following cases: (i) $\mathbb{S}^{k}(\sqrt{\frac{k}{n}})\times \mathbb{S}^{n-k}(\sqrt{\frac{n-k}{n}})$, $\,1\le k\le n-1$; (ii) $\mathbb{S}^{1}(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+μ^2}})\times \mathbb{S}^{n-1}(\fracμ{\sqrt{1+μ^2}})$. Here $β(n,H)=n+\frac{n^3}{2(n-1)}H^2+\frac{n(n-2)}{2(n-1)}\sqrt{n^2H^4+4(n-1)H^2}$ and $μ=\frac{n|H|+\sqrt{n^2H^2+4(n-1)}}{2}$.

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