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2011 Meridional destabilizing number of knots
Toshio Saito
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 11(2): 1205-1242 (2011). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2011.11.1205

Abstract

We define the meridional destabilizing number of a knot. This together with Heegaard genus (or tunnel number) gives a binary complexity of knots. We study its behavior under connected sum of tunnel number one knots.

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Toshio Saito. "Meridional destabilizing number of knots." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 11 (2) 1205 - 1242, 2011. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2011.11.1205

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Received: 14 December 2010; Revised: 9 February 2011; Accepted: 11 February 2011; Published: 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 19 December 2017

zbMATH: 1221.57011
MathSciNet: MR2792378
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2011.11.1205

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25
Secondary: 57N10

Keywords: Heegaard genus , meridional destabilizing number , tunnel number

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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