Existence of a surgery curve with vanishing Levine–Tristram signature

Let KK be a slice knot and let FF be a genus-one Seifert surface for KK. A Levine–Tristram signature function is the signature function associated to a knot, denoted in the source by σK:S1Z\sigma_K:S^1\to\mathbb{Z}. Signature-vanishing surgery-curve conjecture. There exists a surgery curve on FF 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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