Kauffman's Strong Conjecture for genus-one Seifert surfaces

Let KK be a slice knot, and let FF be a genus-one Seifert surface for KK. For a simple closed curve dd on FF, write d+d^+ for its positive push-off and obreaklk(d,d+) obreak\text{lk}(d,d^+) for its self-linking. Kauffman's Strong Conjecture. There \exists an essential simple closed curve dd on FF such that

lk(d,d+)=0\operatorname{lk}(d,d^+)=0

and dd is a slice knot. The paper's counterexamples to Kauffman's conjectures show that this assertion fails in general.

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Tim D. Cochran and Christopher William Davis, “Counterexamples to Kauffman's Conjectures on Slice Knots”, arXiv:1303.4418 (2014).

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