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pith:KXEWHMHB

pith:2010:KXEWHMHB6QFCVKG3X2DQ4WS4OA
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On the figure-8 surgery of S^2\times S^2

Motoo Tange

arxiv:1001.0721 v2 · 2010-01-05 · math.GT · math.DG

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:04:59.231175Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55c963b0e1f40a2aa8dbbe870e5a5c7011633938bba2a7e34fd8b503f0192af3

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.0721 · arxiv_version: 1001.0721v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.0721 · pith_short_12: KXEWHMHB6QFC · pith_short_16: KXEWHMHB6QFCVKG3 · pith_short_8: KXEWHMHB
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KXEWHMHB6QFCVKG3X2DQ4WS4OA \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 55c963b0e1f40a2aa8dbbe870e5a5c7011633938bba2a7e34fd8b503f0192af3
Canonical record JSON
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-05T18:28:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eea3466c48e92f7cf20b759d9d1a02bf360a10753a5b37ca05718fe74c33d37d"
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