Abstract

It is shown by Ozawa that a knot in the 3-sphere has a unique essential tangle decomposition if it admits an essential free 2-tangle decomposition. We show that Ozawa's result cannot be generalized even if a knot admits an essential 2-tangle decomposition such that one of the decomposed tangles is of tunnel number one.

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