Kinoshita conjecture on reducibility of knotted projective planes

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A smoothly embedded projective plane in S4S^4 is knotted if it is not the standard unknotted embedding, and it is reducible if it admits an unknotted summand that is not a 22-sphere. Kinoshita's conjecture. Every knotted projective plane in S4S^4 is reducible. The conjecture was posed as a well-known claim in the study of embedded surfaces in S4S^4 and is disproved by the paper's construction of an irreducible embedded projective plane.

References

Primary source

Mark Hughes, Seungwon Kim, Maggie Miller and Gheehyun Nahm, “An irreducible real projective plane in the 4-sphere”, arXiv:2605.12921 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2504.03086.

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