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Title: Tunnel number degeneration under the connected sum of prime knots
Authors: Nogueira, João Miguel 
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier
Project: PEst-C/MAT/UI0324/2011 
Serial title, monograph or event: Topology and its Applications
Volume: 160
Issue: 9
Abstract: We study 2-string free tangle decompositions of knots with tunnel number two. As an application, we construct infinitely many counter-examples to a conjecture in the literature stating that the tunnel number of the connected sum of prime knots doesn't degenerate by more than one.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/44381
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2013.03.010
10.1016/j.topol.2013.03.010
Rights: embargoedAccess
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