Zilber-Pink in $Y(1)^n$: Beyond multiplicative degeneration

Abstract: We establish Large Galois orbits conjectures for points of unlikely intersections of curves in $Y(1)^n$, upon assumptions on the intersection of such curves with the boundary $X(1)^n\backslash Y(1)^n$, in the Zilber-Pink setting. As a corollary, building on work of Habegger-Pila and Daw-Orr, we obtain new cases of the Zilber-Pink conjecture for curves in $Y(1)^n$.