Reduced group schemes as iterative differential Galois groups (Q2190056)

Differential Galois theory is a branch of abstract algebra that deals with fields endowed with a derivation function. Just as ordinary Galois theory studies field extensions generated by solutions of polynomials over a base field, differential Galois theory studies differential field extensions generated by solutions to differential equations over a base field. In differential Galois theory in positive characteristic, the classical derivatives are replaced by iterative derivatives in order to keep the constants ``small'' and to obtain a suitable Galois theory. On the other hand, the inverse Galois problem asks which groups or group schemes arise as Galois groups for given iterative differential fields. In this paper, the author has considered the inverse Galois problem over base differential fields finitely generated over their field of constants. The author shows that there is a positive answer for reduced algebraic group schemes over any iterative differential field which is finitely generated over its algebraically closed field of constants. The author also introduces the notion of equivalence of iterative derivations on a given field -- a condition which implies that the inverse Galois problem is equivalent over equivalent iterative derivatives.