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arxiv: 0812.0858 · v2 · submitted 2008-12-04 · 🧮 math.GT

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The length of unknotting tunnels

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We show there exist tunnel number one hyperbolic 3-manifolds with arbitrarily long unknotting tunnel. This provides a negative answer to an old question of Colin Adams.

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