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On unknotting operations of two-bridge knots. (English) Zbl 0726.57009
In this paper we completely classify, up to homeomorphism, the forms of unknotting operations of a two-bridge knot with unknotting number one. We show that some class of two-bridge knots has two different unknotting operations.
Reviewer: K.Taniyama

##### MSC:
 57M25 Knots and links in the $$3$$-sphere (MSC2010)
##### Keywords:
unknotting operations; two-bridge knot; unknotting number
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