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Chevalley-Weil Theorem and Subgroups of Class Groups

Number Theory 2017-09-26 v2

Abstract

We prove, under some mild hypothesis, that an \'etale cover of curves defined over a number field has infinitely many specializations into an everywhere unramified extension of number fields. This constitutes an "absolute" version of the Chevalley-Weil theorem. Using this result, we are able to generalize the techniques of Mestre, Levin and the second author for constructing and counting number fields with large class group.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03128,
  title  = {Chevalley-Weil Theorem and Subgroups of Class Groups},
  author = {Yuri Bilu and Jean Gillibert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03128},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Minor improvements following the referee's suggestions. To appear in Israel J. of Math

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