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The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics

Number Theory 2025-07-30 v1

Abstract

For a finite group Γ\Gamma, we study the distribution of the Galois group G#(K)G_{\emptyset}^{\#}(K) of the maximal unramified extension of KK that is split completely at \infty and has degree prime to Γ|\Gamma| and Char(K)\textit{Char}(K), as KK varies over imaginary Γ\Gamma-extensions of Q\mathbb{Q} or Fq(t)\mathbb{F}_q(t). In the function field case, we compute the moments of the distribution of G#(K)G_{\emptyset}^{\#}(K) by counting points on Hurwitz stacks. In order to understand the probability of the distribution, we prove that G#(K)G_{\emptyset}^{\#}(K) admits presentations of a specific form, then use this presentation to build random groups to simulate the behavior of G#(K)G_{\emptyset}^{\#}(K), 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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