On finite Galois coverings of projective manifolds (Q913874)

The author studies the problem of existence of finite Galois covers of complex projective manifolds with assigned Galois group. In particular he proves that, given a smooth projective manifold M and a Galois cover \(X\to M\) with group G, there exist a projective space \({\mathbb{P}}\), a finite subgroup \(G'\) of Aut(\({\mathbb{P}})\) isomorphic to G, and a meromorphic map \(M\to {\mathbb{P}}/G\), such that \(X\to M\) is obtained from \({\mathbb{P}}\to {\mathbb{P}}/G\), by base changing with \(M\to {\mathbb{P}}/G\), and normalizing. As an application, he shows that for any given \(manifold\quad M\) and \(group\quad G\) there exists a Galois cover of M with group G. The main ingredient in all the proofs is a result by Deligne and Kita on the existence of generalized Fuchsian equations with assigned monodromy.