On two-bridge ribbon knots

Abstract

We show that a two-bridge ribbon knot K(m2 , m k 1) with m > k >0 and (m,k)=1 admits a symmetric union presentation with partial knot which is a two-bridge knot K(m,k). Similar descriptions for all the other two-bridge ribbon knots are also given.

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