On the degeneration ratio of tunnel numbers and free tangle decompositions of knots

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Authors Kanji Morimoto

Publication date 9 April 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0014

zbMATH Keywords

\(n/k\)-free tanglesknotstunnel numbers

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Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a notion called n/k-free tangle and study the degeneration ratio of tunnel numbers of knots.

Cited in

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• Annuli in generalized Heegaard splittings and degeneration of tunnel number
• Uniqueness of essential free tangle decompositions of knots and links
• Tunnel numbers of knots
• Tunnel number degeneration under the connected sum of prime knots
• High distance tangles and tunnel number of knots

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