E6-local systems from cubic threefolds
Abstract
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 E6. These local systems arise in the middle cohomology of abelian \'etale covers of the Fano scheme parametrizing lines in the universal cubic threefold.
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