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Let \(\Omega\) be a Hermitian symmetric space of noncompact type that has a compact dual, \(M\) a compact weakly Kähler hyperbolic manifold and \((M,\mathbb V, F^\bullet, S)\) a complex polarized variation of Hodge structures (VHS for short). The paper is devoted to a systematic investigation of the cases of equality in the Arakelov type inequalities for the Chern classes \[ (-1)^{\text{dim}_\mathbb CM}\sum_r(-1)^r\text{ch}(H^{P-p}) \text{ch}(\Omega_M^r)\text{Todd}(T_M)[M]\geq 0. \] For more details, see \textit{P.~Eyssidieux} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 490, 155-212 (1997; Zbl 0886.32013)]. Locally homogeneous VHS on irreducible symmetric domains are described, and a criterion derived from a formula of Kostant that identifies the cases of equality among them is given. This criterion leads in principle to an algorithm producing the list of every locally homogeneous VHS that gives rise to a case of equality. In this spirit an algorithm to determine every such locally homogeneous VHS uniformized by classical domain is obtained. A part of the conjecture that every nontrivial case of equality of universal inequalities among Chern numbers is actually a locally homogeneous VHS is established, and a strong rigidity property satisfied by certain of these examples, which gives more evidence for a gap phenomenon conjectured by N.~Mok and the author, is described. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0913.00032].