The Clifford torus is the product of two circles of radius in the unit sphere
. A parametrization is
where .
Its induced metric is flat, its mean curvature
vector vanishes, and its area is
. It is a minimal
Clifford hypersurface, but is not a totally
geodesic submanifold. It gives the dimension-two
comparison value in the Solomon-Yau
least-volume conjecture.