Existence of a surgery curve with vanishing Levine–Tristram signature
Existence of a surgery curve with vanishing Levine–Tristram signature
Let be a slice knot and let be a genus-one Seifert surface for . A Levine–Tristram signature function is the signature function associated to a knot, denoted in the source by . Signature-vanishing surgery-curve conjecture. There exists a surgery curve on with vanishing Levine–Tristram signature function. The paper then gives counterexamples: some slice knots with genus-one Seifert surfaces have no surgery curve with vanishing signature function, so the 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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