Abhyankar's conjecture

In abstract algebra, Abhyankar's conjecture is a conjecture of Shreeram Abhyankar posed in 1957, on the Galois groups of algebraic function fields of characteristic p.[1] The soluble case was solved by Serre in 1990[2] and the full conjecture was proved in 1994 by work of Michel Raynaud and David Harbater.[3][4][5]

Not to be confused with Abhyankar's lemma.

Statement

The problem involves a finite group G, a prime number p, and the function field K(C) of a nonsingular integral algebraic curve C defined over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic p.

The question addresses the existence of a Galois extension L of K(C), with G as Galois group, and with specified ramification. From a geometric point of view, L corresponds to another curve C′, together with a morphism

π : C′ → C.

Geometrically, the assertion that π is ramified at a finite set S of points on C means that π restricted to the complement of S in C is an étale morphism. This is in analogy with the case of Riemann surfaces. In Abhyankar's conjecture, S is fixed, and the question is what G can be. This is therefore a special type of inverse Galois problem.

Results

The subgroup p(G) is defined to be the subgroup generated by all the Sylow subgroups of G for the prime number p. This is a normal subgroup, and the parameter n is defined as the minimum number of generators of

G/p(G).

Raynaud proved the case where C is the projective line over K, the conjecture states that G can be realised as a Galois group of L, unramified outside S containing s + 1 points, if and only if

n ≤ s.

The general case was proved by Harbater, in which g isthe genus of C and G can be realised if and only if

n ≤ s + 2 g.

References
  1. Abhyankar, Shreeram (1957), "Coverings of Algebraic Curves", American Journal of Mathematics, 79 (4): 825–856, doi:10.2307/2372438.
  2. Serre, Jean-Pierre (1990), "Construction de revêtements étales de la droite affine en caractéristique p", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série I (in French), 311 (6): 341–346, Zbl 0726.14021
  3. Raynaud, Michel (1994), "Revêtements de la droite affine en caractéristique p > 0", Inventiones Mathematicae, 116 (1): 425–462, Bibcode:1994InMat.116..425R, doi:10.1007/BF01231568, Zbl 0798.14013.
  4. Harbater, David (1994), "Abhyankar's conjecture on Galois groups over curves", Inventiones Mathematicae, 117 (1): 1–25, Bibcode:1994InMat.117....1H, doi:10.1007/BF01232232, Zbl 0805.14014.
  5. Fried, Michael D.; Jarden, Moshe (2008), Field arithmetic, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge, vol. 11 (3rd ed.), Springer-Verlag, p. 70, ISBN 978-3-540-77269-9, Zbl 1145.12001
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