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On Elkies' method for bounding the transitivity degree of Galois groups

Number Theory 2020-05-22 v2

Abstract

In 2013 Elkies described a method for bounding the transitivity degree of Galois groups. Our goal is to give additional applications of this technique, in particular verifying that the monodromy group of the degree-276 cover defined over a degree-12 number field computed by Monien is isomorphic to the sporadic Conway group Co3.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05624,
  title  = {On Elkies' method for bounding the transitivity degree of Galois groups},
  author = {Dominik Barth and Andreas Wenz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05624},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages. v2: structural changes and a new example