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Meridional destabilizing number of knots
Saito, Toshio1
1Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA
Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 11 (2011) no. 2, pp. 1205-1242
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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.

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2011.11.1205
Keywords: meridional destabilizing number, Heegaard genus, tunnel number

Saito, Toshio  1

1 Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA 
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