There are Knots whose Tunnel Numbers go down under Connected Sum

DOI10.2307/2161103zbMath0854.57006OpenAlexW4239281853MaRDI QIDQ4874212

Publication date: 21 April 1996

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2161103

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