M. Wood

most citedRemarks on the disproof of the unit distance conjecture

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math.CO2026★ 1 cited

Remarks on the disproof of the unit distance conjecture

Noga Alon, Thomas F. Bloom, W. T. Gowers +6

We present a short, digested, human-verified version of the recent OpenAI-generated counterexample to the ErdÅs unit distance conjecture, and a sequence of reflections on it. The…

math.NT2026

Distributions of unramified extensions of global fields

Will Sawin, Melanie Matchett Wood

Given a finite group $I^$ , we prove results on the distribution of the prime-to- $q ∣ I^∣$ part of fundamental groups of $I^$ -covers of the projective line $P_{F_{q}}^{1}$ …

math.AG2025

Low degree Hurwitz stacks in the Grothendieck ring

Aaron Landesman, Ravi Vakil, Melanie Matchett Wood

For $2 \leq d \leq 5$ , we show that the class of the Hurwitz space of smooth degree $d$ , genus $g$ covers of $P^{1}$ stabilizes in the Grothendieck ring of stacks as $g \to \…