Counting Galois ${\mathbb U}_4({\mathbb F}_p)$-extensions using Massey products
Abstract
We use Massey products and their relations to unipotent representations to parametrize and find an explicit formula for the number of Galois extensions of a given local field with the prescribed Galois group consisting of unipotent four by four matrices over . Further applications of this method involve the counting of certain Galois extensions with restricted ramifications, and counting the numbers of Galois -extensions of some other fields. For each Demushkin pro--group, we find a very simple version of the condition when the -fold Massey product of one-dimensional cohomological elements of with coefficients in , is defined. As an easy consequence, we determine those which occur as an epimorphic image of any given Demushkin group.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.2586,
title = {Counting Galois ${\mathbb U}_4({\mathbb F}_p)$-extensions using Massey products},
author = {Jan Minac and Nguyen Duy Tan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2586},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
33 pages, minor corrections and some changes in exposition. This article will appear in the Journal of Number Theory