Kauffman's Weak Conjecture for genus-one Seifert surfaces

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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 define its self-linking by lk⁡(d,d+)\operatorname{lk}(d,d^+). Kauffman's Weak Conjecture. There exists an essential simple closed curve dd on FF such that

lk⁡(d,d+)=0\operatorname{lk}(d,d^+)=0

and the Arf invariant of dd 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.

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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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