Kauffman's conjecture on surgery curves of genus one slice knots

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A knot is a smooth embedding S1↪S3=∂B4\mathbb{S}^1\hookrightarrow\mathbb{S}^3=\partial\mathbb{B}^4. It is slice if it bounds a smoothly embedded disk in B4\mathbb{B}^4. A genus one Seifert surface for a knot KK is an embedded oriented punctured torus F⊂S3F\subset\mathbb{S}^3 with boundary KK. A surgery curve for FF is a homologically essential simple closed curve on FF with self-linking zero with respect to the Seifert form on FF. Kauffman's conjecture. KK is a slice knot with a genus one Seifert surface FF if and only if FF has a surgery curve which is slice. Kauffman's conjecture proposed a converse to the fact that a slice surgery curve on a genus one Seifert surface allows one to construct a slice disk for the boundary knot by surgery. It was disproved by Cochran and Davis soon after the paper was completed.

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Arunima Ray, “Slice knots which bound punctured Klein bottles”, arXiv:1207.0838 (2013).

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