Unknotting number one knots are prime

DOI10.1007/BF01394778zbMath0576.57004OpenAlexW1994099170MaRDI QIDQ1064613

Martin G. Scharlemann

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143276

zbMATH Keywords

incompressible surfaceirreducible 3-manifoldprime knotboundary- compressible 3-manifoldknot of unknotting number one

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• Smooth spheres in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 4\) with four critical points are standard
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