Daniel Litt

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20072026

most citedGroup-theoretic Johnson classes and a non-hyperelliptic curve with torsion Ceresa class

6 citations · 22 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

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 Erdős unit distance conjecture, and a sequence of reflections on it. The a…

math.AG2026

$E_{6}$ -local systems from cubic threefolds

Thomas Krämer, Daniel Litt, Marco Maculan

We produce infinitely many local systems on (level covers of) the moduli space of smooth cubic threefolds, with algebraic monodromy group equal to the exceptional group $E_{6}$ . Thes…

math.AG2024

Big monodromy for higher Prym representations

Aaron Landesman, Daniel Litt, Will Sawin

Let $Σ_{g^{'}} \to Σ_{g}$ be a cover of an orientable surface of genus g by an orientable surface of genus g', branched at n points, with Galois group H. Such a cover induces a virtual a…

math.AG2023

Finite braid group orbits on $S L_{2}$ -character varieties

Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam, Aaron Landesman, Daniel Litt

Let X be a 2-sphere with n punctures. We classify all conjugacy classes of Zariski-dense representations $ρ : π_{1} (X) \to S L_{2} (C)$ with finite orbit under the mapping class…

math.AG2023

Geometric local systems on the projective line minus four points

Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam, Daniel Litt

Let $J (m)$ be an $m \times m$ Jordan block with eigenvalue $1$ . For $λ \in C ∖ {0, 1}$ , we explicitly construct all rank $2$ local systems of geometric origin on $\ma…

math.AG2022

The Manin-Mumford conjecture in genus 2 and rational curves on K3 surfaces

Philip Engel, Raju Krishnamoorthy, Daniel Litt

Let $A$ be a simple abelian surface over an algebraically closed field $k$ . Let $S \subset A (k)$ be the set of torsion points $x$ of $A$ such that there exists a genus $2$ curve $C$ …