The length of unknotting tunnels

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.637MaRDI QIDQ969657zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daryl Cooper, Marc Lackenby, Jessica S. Purcell

Publication date 7 May 2010

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0858

zbMATH Keywords

geodesichyperbolic \(3\)-manifoldunknotting tunnel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show there exist tunnel number one hyperbolic 3-manifolds with arbitrarily long unknotting tunnel. This provides a negative answer to an old question of Colin Adams.

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