Kauffman's conjecture on surgery curves of genus one slice knots
A knot is a smooth embedding . It is slice if it bounds a smoothly embedded disk in . A genus one Seifert surface for a knot is an embedded oriented punctured torus with boundary . A surgery curve for is a homologically essential simple closed curve on with self-linking zero with respect to the Seifert form on . Kauffman's conjecture. is a slice knot with a genus one Seifert surface if and only if 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.
References
Primary source
Arunima Ray, “Slice knots which bound punctured Klein bottles”, arXiv:1207.0838 (2013).
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