Tunnel Number

Let a knot be -embeddable. Then its tunnel number is a knot invariant which is related to .

See also

Embeddable Knot

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References

Adams, C. C. The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York: W. H. Freeman, p. 114, 1994.

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