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Heegaard splittings of exteriors of, two bridge knots

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Published 2001-01-18, updated 2001-06-28Version 2

In this paper, we show that, for each non-trivial two bridge knot K and for each g > 2, every genus g Heegaard splitting of the exterior E(K) of K is reducible.

Comments: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol5/paper20.abs.html
Journal: Geom. Topol. 5(2001) 609-650
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M25, 57M05
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