We consider in this note the following question: given a closed Riemann n -manifold of constant scalar curvature, how can it be minimally immersed in the round (n + 1)-sphere? Our main result states that the immersion has to be isoparametric if the number of its distinct principal curvatures is three identically. This provides another piece of supporting evidence to a conjecture of Chern.
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