Tangle decompositions of alternating link complements (Q2073234)

This paper refines prior results of Menasco and Thistlethwaite to show that if a prime alternating link can be decomposed into two prime tangles, each of which is alternating, then either such a decomposition is visible on some alternating link diagram or the link is of a particular form (which the authors call ``a pseudo-Montesinos link''). Its unpublished Reference [1] is available on the internet at \url{https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/1191/docs/Preprints/BonSieb.pdf}.