Heegaard genus of the connected sum of m-small knots

Abstract: We prove that if

K_{1} s u b s e t M_{1}, ..., K_{n} s u b s e t M_{n}

are m-small knots in closed orientable 3-manifolds then the Heegaard genus of

is strictly less than the sum of the Heegaard genera of the

E (K_{i})

(

i = 1, ..., n

) if and only if there exists a proper subset

I

of

1, ..., n

so that

admits a primitive meridian. This generalizes the main result of Morimoto in cite{morimoto1}.

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