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The tunnel number of the sum of n knots is at least n

Martin Scharlemann, Jennifer Schultens

Published 1999-02-01Version 1

We prove that the tunnel number of the sum of n knots is at least n.

Comments: 8 pages. To appear in Topology
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M25, 57N20
Keywords: tunnel number
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