The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics
Abstract
For a finite group , we study the distribution of the Galois group of the maximal unramified extension of that is split completely at and has degree prime to and , as varies over imaginary -extensions of or . In the function field case, we compute the moments of the distribution of by counting points on Hurwitz stacks. In order to understand the probability of the distribution, we prove that admits presentations of a specific form, then use this presentation to build random groups to simulate the behavior of , and make the conjecture to predict the distribution using the probability measures of these random groups. Our results provide the imaginary analog of the work of Wood, Zureick-Brown, and the first author on the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics.
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@article{arxiv.2507.21558,
title = {The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics},
author = {Yuan Liu and Ken Willyard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21558},
year = {2025}
}
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