scientific article; zbMATH DE number 17249

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0727.00012.] An unknotting tunnel for a knot \(K\) in \(S^ 3\) is a \(1\)-handle \(B\subset S^ 3\) attached to a regular neighborhood \(N\) of \(K\) such that the closure of the complement of \(N\cup B\) is a handlebody of genus 2. For a `general' \(2\)-bridge knot \(K\), several unknotting tunnels have been found. \textit{K. Morimoto} and \textit{M. Sakuma} [Math.\ Ann. 289, 143-167 (1991; Zbl 0697.57002)] classified these up to isotopy (of \(S^ 3\) which leaves \(N\) setwise invariant). In the present paper the author gives a new proof for a part of their classification theorem.

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