Every Two-Generator Knot is Prime

DOI10.2307/2044414MaRDI QIDQ4743446zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. H. Norwood

Publication date 1982

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2044414

zbMATH Keywords

composite one-relator linkfree product with amalgamationgroup of a composite knotone-relator knotprime knottwo-generator knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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• Tunnel number one knots satisfy the Poenaru conjecture
• The free product of groups with amalgamated subgroup malnormal in a single factor
• On the additivity of tunnel number of knots
• On nonsimple 3-manifolds and 2-handle addition
• On composite tunnel number one links
• The growth rate of the tunnel number of m-small knots
• Tunnel number, 1-bridge genus and h-genus of knots
• Additive invariants for knots, links and graphs in 3-manifolds
• Characterization of tunnel number two knots which have the property ``\(2+1= 2\)
• Composite two-generator links
• On composite twisted torus knots
• Some results on Heegaard splitting
• Infinitely many roots of unity are zeros of some Jones polynomials
• Thurston norm via Fox calculus
• The combinatorics of some tetrahedron manifolds
• Double branched covers of tunnel number one knots
• On the degeneration of tunnel numbers under a connected sum
• Tunnel numbers of knots
• A geometric study of generalized Neuwirth groups
• Knot surgery and primeness
• Tunnel number degeneration under the connected sum of prime knots
• Links with super-additive tunnel number
• Two-Generator Cable Knots are Tunnel One
• Composite tunnel number one genus two handlebody-knots
• There are Knots whose Tunnel Numbers go down under Connected Sum
• Non-simple links with tunnel number one
• Examples of tunnel number one knots which have the property ‘1 + 1 = 3’
• Knots and surfaces
• Two More Proofs that the Kinoshita Graph is Knotted
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7688136 (Why is no real title available?)
• Ribbon \(2\)-knot groups of Coxeter type
• An integral invariant from the knot group
• An infinite family of chiral, non-slice, non-alternating hyperbolic knots with vanishing Upsilon invariants
• On the transient number of a knot
• On torus knots in 3-manifolds with genus one Heegaard splitting
• Combinatorics of a class of groups with cyclic presentation
• Critical point theory in knot complements
• On unknotting tunnels for knots

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