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Groups with no Parametric Galois Extension

Number Theory 2016-05-31 v1

Abstract

We disprove a strong form of the Regular Inverse Galois Problem: there exist finite groups GG which do not have a realization F/\Qq(T)F/\Qq(T) that induces all Galois extensions L/\Qq(U)L/\Qq(U) of group GG by specializing TT to f(U)\Qq(U)f(U) \in \Qq(U). For these groups, we produce two extensions L/\Qq(U)L/\Qq(U) that cannot be simultaneously induced, thus even disproving a weaker Lifting Property. Our examples of such groups GG include symmetric groups SnS_n, n7n\geq 7, infinitely many PSL2(\Ffp)PSL_2(\Ff_p), the Monster. Two variants of the question with \Qq(U)\Qq(U) replaced by \Cc(U)\Cc(U) and \Qq\Qq are answered similarly, the second one under a diophantine "working hypothesis" going back to a problem of Schinzel. We introduce two new tools: a comparizon theorem between the invariants of an extension F/\Cc(T)F/\Cc(T) and those obtained by specializing TT to f(U)\Cc(U)f(U) \in \Cc(U), and, given two regular Galois extensions of k(T)k(T), a finite set of polynomials P(U,T,Y)P(U,T,Y) that say whether these extensions have a common specialization E/kE/k.

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@article{arxiv.1605.09363,
  title  = {Groups with no Parametric Galois Extension},
  author = {Pierre Dèbes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09363},
  year   = {2016}
}

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38 pages

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