Ethan Pesikoff

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I mostly think about 4-manifolds. I'm particularly interesting in mapping class groups, Lefschetz fibrations, and algebraic surfaces.



Papers:

Homological Nielsen realization for the manifolds nCP2. pdf





Projects from undergrad (mostly through REUs):

Irreducibility over the Max-Min Semiring, with B. Baily, J Dell, H. L. Fleischmann, F. Jackson, S. J. Miller, L Reifenberg. Journal of Integer Sequences (2025). arXiv pdf

Optimal Point Sets Determining Few Distinct Angles, with H. L. Fleischmann, S. J. Miller, E. A. Palsson, C. Wolf. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics (2023). arXiv pdf

The maximum hook length of d-distinct simultaneous core partitions, with B. Przybocki, J. Xia. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (2023). arXiv pdf

Distinct Angles in General Position, with H. L. Fleischmann, S. V. Konyagin, S. J. Miller, E. A. Palsson, C. Wolf. Discrete Mathematics (2023). arXiv pdf

Distinct Angle Problems and Variants, with H. L. Fleischmann, H. B. Hu, F. Jackson, S. J. Miller, E. A. Palsson, C. Wolf. Discrete and Computational Geometry (2023). arXiv pdf

The Bergman Game, with B. Baily, J. Dell, I. Durmić, H. L. Fleischmann, F. Jackson, I. Mijares, S. J. Miller, L. Reifenberg, A. Smith Reina, Y. Yang. Fibonacci Quarterly (2022). arXiv pdf

The Generalized Bergman Game, with B. Baily, J. Dell, I. Durmić, H. L. Fleischmann, F. Jackson, I. Mijares, S. J. Miller, L. Reifenberg, A. Smith Reina, Y. Yang. arXiv pdf

The Complexity of the Zeckendorf Graph Game, with B. Baily, J. Dell, H. L. Fleischmann, F. Jackson, S. J. Miller, L. Reifenberg. In preparation.

Large Sets are Sumsets, with B. Baily, J. Dell, S. Dever, A. Dionne, H. L. Fleischmann, F. Jackson, S. J. Miller, L. Goldmakher, G. Gross, H. Pham, L. Reifenberg, V. Venkatesh. In preparation.