English

Presentations of Galois groups of maximal extensions with restricted ramification

Number Theory 2025-04-23 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

Motivated by the work of Lubotzky, we use Galois cohomology to study the difference between the number of generators and the minimal number of relations in a presentation of the Galois group GS(k)G_S(k) of the maximal extension of a global field kk that is unramified outside a finite set SS of places, as kk varies among a certain family of extensions of a fixed global field QQ. We prove a generalized version of the global Euler-Poincar\'{e} Characteristic, and define a group BS(k,A)B_S(k,A), for each finite simple GS(k)G_S(k)-module AA, to generalize the work of Koch about the pro-\ell completion of GS(k)G_S(k) to study the whole group GS(k)G_S(k). In the setting of the nonabelian Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, we prove that the objects studied by the Liu--Wood--Zureick-Brown conjecture are always achievable by the random group that is constructed in the definition the probability measure in the conjecture.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.07329,
  title  = {Presentations of Galois groups of maximal extensions with restricted ramification},
  author = {Yuan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07329},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Comments are welcome