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Research Interests

Elliptic curve, Hunter Handley

Most of my current work is about arithmetic statistics of curves over finite and global fields. 

By coincidence, I think about a lot of double eponyms: Brill-Noether, Cohen-Lenstra, and

Katz-Sarnak. I am working to write down Brill-Noether general curves over arbitrary fields, understand q-Frobenius distributions on large-genus curves, and predicting

cohomology in the moduli space of curves. 

 

My other research interests on my mind (but perhaps not at the

forefront) include:​

  • Explicit number theory/diophantine geometry​

    • Point counting on elliptic curves & abelian varieties​

    • Applications to post-quantum cryptography

  • Diophantine equations and approximation​

    • S-units equations and algebraic tori ​

    • Continued fractions/badly approximable numbers

  • Definability and decidability 

    • Hilbert's Tenth Problem over arithmetically significant rings​

    • Computational complexity of decision problems

  • Algebraic Model Theory​

    • Transfer principles and o-minimality as applied to algebraic geometry

Publications

Published/Accepted:

Preprints

  • First-Order Definability of Darmon Points in Number Fields (with Juan Pablo De Rasis) - submitted for publication 

  • Efficient Zero-Knowledge Outer Products and Matrix Multiplication (with Jessica Bennett, Shuhong Gao, Aram Lindroth, Emily Sundberg, & Marvin Jones) - in preparation

  • All Evils Great and Small (with Levi Durham) - submission in progress

    •  Philosophy of religion, formal epistemology, and decision theory

  • Works in progress with Jeff Hatley on Iwasawa Theory and Arithmetic Statistics of Abelian Varieties

Expository Notes

  • What is Completeness?  - Introductory notes on Gödel's Completeness Theorem and applications of complete theories to graph theory, algebra, and geometry, developed for OSU's What is? seminar.

(Some) Work of my mentees

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