First-order theory of a field and its Inverse Galois Problem
Abstract
Let be a finite group. Then there exists a first-order statement in the language of rings without parameters and depending only on such that, for any field , we have that if and only if has a Galois extension with the Galois group isomorphic to . Further, there is an effective procedure which takes the table of multiplication of as its input and produces . Therefore, given a field , the Inverse Galois Problem for , that is, the problem of deciding whether has a Galois extension with a particular Galois group as input, is Turing reducible to the first-order theory of . Similar results hold for the Finite Split Embedding Problem and the Inverse Automorphism Problem.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.13047,
title = {First-order theory of a field and its Inverse Galois Problem},
author = {Francesca Balestrieri and Jennifer Park and Alexandra Shlapentokh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13047},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
13 pages. We have completely rewritten the paper to address the major remarks provided by a referee. It no longer discusses the Diophantine aspects of the problem, and we focus on the theory of fields and first-order language of rings without parameters