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COMMON STABILIZATIONS OF HEEGAARD SPLITTINGS OF KNOT EXTERIORS

  • Published : 2010.01.01
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Abstract

In [4], we gave a condition for a pair of unknotting tunnels of a non-trivial tunnel number one link to give a genus three Heegaard splitting of the link complement. In this paper we prove the corresponding result for tunnel number one knots.

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