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arxiv: math/0607265 · v3 · pith:TZNWRPD2new · submitted 2006-07-11 · 🧮 math.GT

High distance knots

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We construct knots in S^3 with Heegaard splittings of arbitrarily high distance, in any genus. As an application, for any positive integers t and b we find a tunnel number t knot in the three-sphere which has no (t,b)-decomposition.

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