Subgroup Structure of Fundamental Groups in Positive Characteristic

DOI10.1080/00927872.2012.676115zbMATH Open1276.14044arXiv1106.6004OpenAlexW2160273431MaRDI QIDQ2850819FDOQ2850819

Manish Kumar, Lior Bary-Soroker

Publication date: 30 September 2013

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Pi$ be the 'etale fundamental group of a smooth affine curve over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$. We establish a criterion for profinite freeness of closed subgroups of $Pi$. Roughly speaking, if a closed subgroup of $Pi$ is "captured" between two normal subgroups, then it is free, provided it contains most of the open subgroups of index $p$. In the proof we establish a strong version of "almost $omega$-freeness" of $Pi$ and then apply the Haran-Shapiro induction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.6004

zbMATH Keywords

free groupscoveringsfundamental groupsdiamond theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive characteristic ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G17) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Universal profinite groups (relationship to moduli spaces, projective and moduli towers, Galois theory) (14G32)

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