I’m sharing a short paper that proposes a new interpretation of the imaginary unit i as a definite arc integral — showing it as a continuous phase lift that naturally recovers Euler’s identity and the classical i roots of unity.

It’s fully cryptographically signed (PGP) and timestamped. Free to download, share, verify, or break. ~50% of readers so far have downloaded it — very unusual for a pure math post.

Please verify the signature, read it critically, and try to find any flaw in the logic or trust chain.

Zenodo DOI (PDF, .asc, public key): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783356

Repo: https://github.com/Purrplexia/Maths

Would love to hear your thoughts — good, bad, skeptical, or corrections.

Trust, but verify.