Kauffman's Weak Conjecture for genus-one Seifert surfaces
Let be a slice knot, and let be a genus-one Seifert surface for . For a simple closed curve on , write for its positive push-off and define its self-linking by . Kauffman's Weak Conjecture. There exists an essential simple closed curve on such that
and the Arf invariant of vanishes. The theorem in the paper constructs slice knots and genus-one Seifert surfaces for which no surgery curve has vanishing Arf invariant, so this conjecture is refuted.
References
Primary source
Tim D. Cochran and Christopher William Davis, “Counterexamples to Kauffman's Conjectures on Slice Knots”, arXiv:1303.4418 (2014).
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