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Reproducible Example

In [4]: pd.DataFrame({'a': [[1, 2], [3, 4]]}, dtype=pd.ArrowDtype(pa.list_(pa.int64()))).explode('a')
Out[4]:
   a
0  1
0  2
1  3
1  4

In [5]: pd.DataFrame({'a': [[1, 2], [3, 4]]}, dtype=pd.ArrowDtype(pa.large_list(pa.int64()))).explode('a')
Out[5]:
       a
0  [1 2]
1  [3 4]

Issue Description

For list_, it explodes correctly, but for large_list, it's a no-op

Expected Behavior

   a
0  1
0  2
1  3
1  4

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : 57fd50221ea3d5de63d909e168f10ad9fc0eee9b python : 3.10.12 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Version : #1 SMP Tue Nov 5 00:21:55 UTC 2024 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : C.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8 pandas : 3.0.0.dev0+1979.g57fd50221e numpy : 1.26.4 dateutil : 2.9.0.post0 pip : 25.0.1 Cython : 3.0.12 sphinx : 8.1.3 IPython : 8.33.0 adbc-driver-postgresql: None adbc-driver-sqlite : None bs4 : 4.13.3 blosc : None bottleneck : 1.4.2 fastparquet : 2024.11.0 fsspec : 2025.2.0 html5lib : 1.1 hypothesis : 6.127.5 gcsfs : 2025.2.0 jinja2 : 3.1.5 lxml.etree : 5.3.1 matplotlib : 3.10.1 numba : 0.61.0 numexpr : 2.10.2 odfpy : None openpyxl : 3.1.5 psycopg2 : 2.9.10 pymysql : 1.4.6 pyarrow : 19.0.1 pyreadstat : 1.2.8 pytest : 8.3.5 python-calamine : None pytz : 2025.1 pyxlsb : 1.0.10 s3fs : 2025.2.0 scipy : 1.15.2 sqlalchemy : 2.0.38 tables : 3.10.1 tabulate : 0.9.0 xarray : 2024.9.0 xlrd : 2.0.1 xlsxwriter : 3.2.2 zstandard : 0.23.0 tzdata : 2025.1 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None

Comment From: snitish

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