The Granny and the Square Tangle and the Unknotting Number
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We show that a knot with a diagram with n granny and square tangles has unknotting number at least n, bridge number > n, and braid index > n. As an application, we construct exponentially many in the crossing number slice knots with arbitrarily high unknotting number.
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