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    Kanji Morimoto

  2. Department of Mathematics, College of General Education, Osaka University, Toyonaka, 560, Osaka, Japan

    Makoto Sakuma

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Morimoto, K., Sakuma, M. On unknotting tunnels for knots. Math. Ann. 289, 143–167 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01446565

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