On 2-knots and connected sums with projective planes

Vincent Longo

Published 2019-01-30Version 1

In this paper, we generalize a result of Satoh to show that for any odd natural $n$, the connected sum of the $n$-twist spun sphere of a knot $K$ and an unknotted projective plane in the 4-sphere is equivalent to the same unknotted projective plane. We additionally provide a fix to a small error in Satoh's proof of the case that $K$ is a 2-bridge knot.