2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/95866To each unit complex number with positive imaginary part there is defined a Tristram-Levine knot signature function. The set of all such signature functions is linearly independent as a set of functions defined on the set of all knots. The set of averaged signature functions forms a linearly independent set of homomorophisms on the knot concordance group. However, for each unit root of an Alexander polynomial, there is a slice knot with nonvanishing signature at that root and its conjugate, and nowhere else. These results hold for knots in all odd dimension.8 pages. Revision includes applications to knot concordanceGeometric Topology57M25; 11e39text