Kauffman's Weak Conjecture for genus-one Seifert surfaces
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.
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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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