On the minimal ramification problem for semiabelian groups

DOI10.2140/ANT.2010.4.1077MaRDI QIDQ716052zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hershy Kisilevsky, Danny Neftin, Jack Sonn

Publication date 19 April 2011

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1964

zbMATH Keywords

Galois groupnilpotent groupramified primessemiabelian groupwreath product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Galois theory (11R32) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15)

Abstract: It is now known that for any prime p and any finite semiabelian p-group G, there exists a (tame) realization of G as a Galois group over the rationals Q with exactly d = d(G) ramified primes, where d(G) is the minimal number of generators of G, which solves the minimal ramification problem for finite semiabelian p-groups. We generalize this result to obtain a theorem on finite semiabelian groups and derive the solution to the minimal ramification problem for a certain family of semiabelian groups that includes all finite nilpotent semiabelian groups G. Finally, we give some indication of the depth of the minimal ramification problem for semiabelian groups not covered by our theorem.

Review text

For a finite group \(G\), let \(\mathrm{d}(G)\) be the smallest integer for which \(G\) is the normal closure of a subset \(S\) with \(\mathrm{d}(G)\) elements. One observes that if there exists a tame \(G\)-Galois extension \(K/\mathbb Q\), then at least \(\mathrm{d}(G)\) rational primes ramify in \(K\). It is an open question whether there exists such an extension with exactly \(\mathrm{d}(G)\) ramifying primes. This minimal ramification problem was solved by \textit{H. Kisilevsky} and \textit{J. Sonn} [Compos. Math. 146, No. 3, 599--606 (2010; Zbl 1197.11150)], using a result by \textit{D. Neftin} [``On semiabelian \(p\)-groups, preprint, 2009, \url{arXiv:0908.1472v2}], for finite semiabelian \(p\)-groups, i.e. \(p\)-groups in the minimal family that contains \(\{1\}\) and is closed under quotients and semidirect products with finite abelian groups. In this paper the result is generalized to arbitrary finite semiabelian groups by means of a wreath product length \(\mathrm{wl}(G)\): when this coincides with \(\mathrm{d}(G)\) the minimal ramification problem is solved. In particular this includes all finite nilpotent semiabelian groups. In the last section the authors examine some arithmetic consequences that a general positive solution to the problem would have.

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