Finite quotients of the pure symplectic braid group

DOI10.1007/BF02773459MaRDI QIDQ1269757zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kay Magaard, Karl Strambach, Helmut Völklein

Publication date 16 July 1999

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02773459

zbMATH Keywords

finite symplectic groupsinverse Galois theorypure symplectic braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse Galois theory (12F12) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36)

Review text

The authors show that the finite symplectic groups arise as quotients of the pure symplectic braid group. The proof of this results makes use of a deep result of Kantor classifying primitive linear groups generated by transvections. As an application we get a result in the inverse Galois theory: The simple group \(Sp_n(2^f)\), \(1\leq f\neq 2\), \(n\geq 10\), occurs as a Galois group over \(\mathbb{Q}\) if \(n\geq 2\varphi(2^f-1)\) for even \(f\) and \(n\geq 2\varphi(2^f+1)\) for odd \(f\). Here \(\varphi\) denotes Euler's phi-function.

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