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Counting Galois ${\mathbb U}_4({\mathbb F}_p)$-extensions using Massey products

Number Theory 2016-12-30 v3

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 U4(Fp){\mathbb U}_4({\mathbb F}_p) consisting of unipotent four by four matrices over Fp{\mathbb F}_p. Further applications of this method involve the counting of certain Galois extensions with restricted ramifications, and counting the numbers of Galois U4(Fp){\mathbb U}_4({\mathbb F}_p)-extensions of some other fields. For each Demushkin pro-pp-group, we find a very simple version of the condition when the nn-fold Massey product of one-dimensional cohomological elements of GG with coefficients in Fp{\mathbb F}_p, is defined. As an easy consequence, we determine those Un(Fp){\mathbb U}_n({\mathbb F}_p) 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

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