Permanence criteria for semi-free profinite groups
Group Theory
2010-04-02 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We introduce the condition of a profinite group being semi-free, which is more general than being free and more restrictive than being quasi-free. In particular, every projective semi-free profinite group is free. We prove that the usual permanence properties of free groups carry over to semi-free groups. Using this, we conclude that if k is a separably closed field, then many field extensions of k((x,y)) have free absolute Galois groups.
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@article{arxiv.0810.0845,
title = {Permanence criteria for semi-free profinite groups},
author = {Lior Bary-Soroker and Dan Haran and David Harbater},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0845},
year = {2010}
}
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24 pages