Additive tunnel number and primitive elements
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numbertunnelknotsadditiveprimitiveconditionconnectedelement
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It is proven here that if the connected sum of two tunnel number one knots in the 3-sphere is a tunnel number two knot, then at least one of the summand knots has a genus two Heegaard splitting with a meridian as a primitive element. Hence this is a necessary and sufficient condition for tunnel number one knots to have additive tunnel number.
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