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Common stabilizations of Heegaard splittings of link exteriors

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Abstract

We give a condition for a pair of unknotting tunnels of a non-trivial tunnel number one link to give a genus three Heegaard splitting of the link complement and show that every 2-bridge link has such a pair of unknotting tunnels.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-110
Number of pages10
JournalTopology and its Applications
Volume150
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005.05.14

Keywords

  • Heegaard splitting
  • Link exterior
  • Stabilization
  • Tunnel number

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