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Classification of alternating knots with tunnel number one

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

This paper gives a complete classification of all alternating knots with tunnel number one, and all their unknotting tunnels. We prove that the only such knots are two-bridge knots and certain Montesinos knots.

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@article{arxiv.math/0103217,
  title  = {Classification of alternating knots with tunnel number one},
  author = {Marc Lackenby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0103217},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

38 pages, 26 figures; to appear in Communications in Analysis and Geometry

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